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and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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Your Walk Affects Others
Commentators explain that “making straight paths” is a call to corporate responsibility. It means living with integrity and removing spiritual stumbling blocks, not just for your own sake, but for the weaker believers (the “lame”) in the community. Your choices create the path others walk on, and the goal is to make it smooth and safe, preventing them from stumbling or straying from the faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And make straight paths for your feet. The marginal note says even. The word used here properly means straight in the se…
Straight paths (τροχιας ορθας). Track of a wheel (τροχος, James 3:6 from τρεχω, to run), here only in N.T. "Straight (ο…
19th Century
Anglican
And make straight paths.—Quoted with some slight changes from the Greek translation of Proverbs 4:26, ponder (or, more pr…
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Baptist
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to th…
A quotation from Pr 4:26 is added. The idea is to put the paths into better shape in order to facilitate travel, specifically for the lame. The wri…
16th Century
Protestant
And make straight paths, etc. He has been until now teaching us to lean on God’s consolations, so that we may be bold and strenuous in doi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And make straight paths for your feet By "feet" are meant the walk and conversation of the saints, both in the churc…
A burden of affliction tends to make the Christian's hands hang down and his knees grow feeble, to dishearten and discourage him; but he must striv…
13th Century
Catholic
Having indicated how we should behave toward the enduring evils of chastisement, the Apostle now shows how we should act to avoid the evils of guil…
