Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor. 1. It involves impiety. To mock at sin is to despise God's holiness, to set at nought His authority, to abuse God's goodness, to disregard and slight God's glory, to make light of God's curse and threatened vengeance; which implies a denial of God's truth, and a scornful defiance of God's power. 2. It involves cruelty. There breathes not on earth a more inhuman, a more iron-hearted monster, than the man who "makes a mock at sin." 3. And such mockery is most infatuated. Sin is the evil that is ruining the poor sinner himself — hurrying him to perdition. (R. Wardlaw, D.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.WEB: Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will. |
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