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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: — This man of God has made his confession to the saints, and now he tells it out to the children. There is nothing like working on material that will last, and those who are now children will most of them be alive when those who are now old men are dead and gone. So David says, “Come ye children, hearken unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will teach you the fear of the LORD. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. There is life or death in the human tongue; there is life in the tongue that is under subjection to the will of God, there is death, there is mischief of all sorts, in a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come, ye children hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. A Sunday School teacher’s text. Gather the children close to you. Say, “Come near me. I would be familiar with you.” It was a king who spoke these words, and yet he delighted to say, “Come ye children.” Win their attention. “Hearken unto me.” If they do not hear, how shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. He who can manage his tongue can manage his whole body; for the tongue is the rudder of the ship, and if that be properly held, the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What man [is he that] desireth life?.... Every man desires life, even a natural life; it is more desirable than all things in it; especially an healthful life, without which the blessings and mercies of life cannot be comfortably enjoyed; and still more a life of prosperity; life, with an affluence of good things, and even a long one: though it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. He that can rule his tongue can rule his whole body. Alas! that unruly member destroys peace and happiness in thousands of cases. The tongue can no man tame, but the grace of God can tame it; and that man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Children’s tongues are very active, and they need to be reminded that their tongues must be sanctified or they will say what is evil. David had both spoken and acted with guile at the court of Achish, so he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What man is he that desireth life, What man is he that does not desire life? Love of it is innate in us all.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile. He begins with one of the hardest practical duties of the fear of God for he that bridleth his tongue is able also be bridle the whole body. The tongue is such an unruly member that if that be kept — and only through grace can it be so — then we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Keep thy tongue from evil,.... This, and what follows in this verse and Psalms 34:14, point at the things wherein the fear of God shows itself; and suggest, that those who have it, and which is known by these fruits, shall enjoy the desirable and good days before mentioned. The tongue is an instrument of much evil, an unruly member, and needs...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Depart from evil,.... This denotes that evil is near to men; it keeps close to them, and should be declined and shunned: and it regards all sorts of evil; evil men, and their evil company; evil things, evil words and works, and all appearance of evil; and the fear of the Lord shows itself in an hatred of it, and a departure from it, Proverbs 8:13;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. True happiness is found in true holiness. “Depart from evil.” That is, do not go after it. But it is much more than that. Go away from it. Give it a wide berth. “Depart from evil.” But be not satisfied with the negatives. It is not enough to say, “I do not do any evil,” but do good. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil, and do good; Get away from evil as far as you can; that is the negative side. Do good, that is the positive side of piety. He who obeys these two commands shall find happiness and blessing. Psa_34:14. Seek peace, and pursue it. Do not be of an angry, irritable, quarrelsome frame of mind. If you do not at once find peace, seek it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. A great deal packed away into a small compass there. There is the negative “Depart from evil,” and the positive which must go with it, “Do good.” And if you do not do good, you will soon do evil. And then there is that blessed precept “Seek peace.” Hunt after it, if you cannot spy it out,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. If it runs away from you, run after it. Never run into or after a quarrel, but always run after peace: “Seek peace, and pursue it.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The eyes of the Lord [are] upon the righteous,.... These are the same with them that fear the Lord, and do good; not that they become righteous in the sight of God, or are justified before him, by their fear of him, and by their good works; but these are the fruits and effects of grace, showing them to be righteous persons; for it is only by the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto heir cry. God is all eye and all ear, and all his eye and all his ear are for his people. Are you distressed in heart? God sees your distress. Are you crying in secret in the bitterness of your soul? God hears your cry. You are not alone. O lonely spirit, broken spirit, be not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, He does not merely give a glance at them now and then, but his eyes rest on them, he is always watching them. Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry. The translators put in the words “are open,” but they were not needed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. He gives them his eyes and his ears, and this means that he gives them himself, and that he is ever ready to perceive their needs, and to hear their cries.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, He watches them. He loves them too well to let them ever be out of his sight. He views them with complacency. He regards them with affection. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. Psa_34:15. And his ears are open unto their cry. Ready to hear their feeblest prayer — the cry of their pain — their...