2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart;
Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
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.
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:
For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right `to come' to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before `them' all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.
These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah.
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Commentary on Psalms 15 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 15
The scope of this short but excellent psalm is to show us the way to heaven, and to convince us that, if we would be happy, we must be holy and honest. Christ, who is himself the way, and in whom we must walk as our way, has also shown us the same way that is here prescribed, Mt. 19:17. "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.' In this psalm,
A psalm of David.
Psa 15:1-5
Here is,
In singing this psalm we must teach and admonish ourselves, and one another, to answer the characters here given of the citizen of Zion, that we may never be moved from God's tabernacle on earth, and may arrive, at last, at that holy hill where we shall be for ever out of the reach of temptation and danger.