Jeremiah 7:5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;… Some men, when they attempt to reform their lives, reform those things for which they do not much care. They take the torch of God's Word, and enter some indifferent chamber and the light blazes in, and they see that they are very sinful there; and then they look into another room, where they do not often stay, and are willing to admit that they are very sinful there; but they leave unexplored some cupboards and secret apartments where their life really is, and where they have stored up the things which are dearest to them, and which they will neither part with nor suffer rebuke for. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; |