Bridges on Proverbs 15:26
 
 
Charles Bridges on Proverbs 15:26
 
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26.  The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words. {pleasant...: Heb. words of pleasantness}
 
How lightly do most men think of the responsibility of their thoughts! as if they were their own, and they might indulge them without restraint or evil. One substantial sin appals men, who quietly sleep under the mighty mass of thinking without God for months and years, without any apprehension of guilt. But thoughts are the seminal principles of sin. And as the cause virtually includes its effects; so do they contain, like the seed in its little body, all the after fruit. They are also the index of character. Watch their infinite variety; not so much those that are under the control of circumstances, or thrown up by the occasion, as the voluntary flow, following the habitual train of our associations. “For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Chapter 23:7.) Let the Christian yield himself up to the clear radiance of “the word, as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart:” and what a mass of vanity does only one day, one hour, bring to account! As to the wicked? “Evil thoughts” are the first bubbling of the corrupt fountain. (Matthew 15:19.) The tide of evil rolls on unceasingly in “thoughts of iniquity” (Isaiah 59:7), in order to give effect to the malevolent temper; dwelling on wickedness with complacency; pursuing it with determined purpose. What can such thoughts be, but an abomination to the LORD?
Very different is his mind towards his own people. The words of the pure, as the expression of their thoughts (Matthew 12:34. Psalm 37:30, 31), are pleasant words. How pleasant, is manifest from his inviting call to their intercourse with him (Verse 8. Song of Solomon 2:14); yet more from the open reward prepared for them before the assembled world. “They that spake often one to another — and thought upon his name — they shall be mine, saith the LORD, in that day when I make up my jewels.” (Malachi 3:16, 17.)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Footnote:
Chapter 24:9. Genesis 6:5. Even an Heathen accurately described them. ‘The indigenous fountains of evil.’ Plutarch. Moral — Again — ‘If thou wouldest unlock the door of thine heart, thou wilt find a storehouse and treasury of evils diversified, and full of numberless passions.’ Ibid.
 

 
Proverbs 24:9
9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
 
Genesis 6:5
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. {every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires} {continually: Heb. every day}
 
 
Proverbs 23:7
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
 
 
Footnote:
Hebrews 4:12, 13. — a critic, censuring the errata with the most minute accuracy.
 

 
Hebrews 4:12, 13
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
 
 
Matthew 15:19
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
 
 
Isaiah 59:7
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
 
 
Matthew 12:34
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
 
Psalm 37:30, 31
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. {steps: or, goings}
 
 
Proverbs 15:8
8 ¶ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
 
Song of Solomon 2:14
14 ¶ O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
 
 
Malachi 3:16, 17.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. {jewels: or, special treasure}