Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. the wicked: — There is a difference between good thoughts that ascend from the frame of our hearts and those that are injected from without. For instance, a gracious man's holy thoughts ascend from the spiritual frame that is within his soul; but now a wicked man may have holy thoughts cast into him as a flash of lightning in the night, which doth not make a day; neither doth the injection of some holy thoughts argue the frame of his heart spiritual and holy. When he hath been hearing a warm sermon, then he thinks with himself, heaven deserves his choice, and eager pursuits; this is but from without, and therefore doth not argue that he is spiritual. (J. Pulsford) Parallel Verses KJV: The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.WEB: The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. |
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