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learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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True Worship is Action
Commentators like Spurgeon and Calvin emphasize that God is not pleased by empty religious rituals when justice is ignored. This verse shows that true worship involves actively doing good: seeking justice, correcting oppression, and caring for the most vulnerable. These actions are the substance of what God truly desires from his people, far more than sacrifices or ceremonies.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Learn to do well—To learn here means to become accustomed to it, to practice it. To do well stands opposed to all kinds of evil. Seek ju…
19th Century
Anglican
Relieve the oppressed. —More accurately, correct the oppressor. The prophet calls on the rulers not merely to acts of benevolence…
Baptist
Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
This is better than all your incense, or the fat of…
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16th Century
Protestant
Learn to do well. As he had just now, in enjoining them to cease to do evil, charged them with the continual practice of iniquity…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Learn to do well Which men are naturally ignorant of; to do good they have no knowledge; nor can they that are accus…
Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our Go…
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13th Century
Catholic
The new moons, and the sabbaths. Here he rejects the celebration of solemn festivals.
He addresses this in three s…
