Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? It is like a cheating tradesman who will put you off with bad wares; the heart will put a man off with seeming grace, instead of saving. A tear or two shed is repentance, a few lazy desires is faith; blue and red flowers that grow among the corn look like good flowers, but they are beautiful weeds. The foolish virgins' lamps looked as if they had had off in them, but they had none. Therefore to prevent a cheat, that we may not take false grace instead of true, we had need make a thorough disquisition and search of our hearts. ( T. Watson.) Parallel Verses KJV: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?WEB: The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? |
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