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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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God's Forgiveness is Infinite
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse is not just a general statement about God's greatness, but a specific assurance about His forgiveness. Scholars like Spurgeon and Calvin explain that our highest thoughts about mercy are dwarfed by God's reality. When you doubt if God can truly forgive you, this verse declares His capacity to pardon is as infinitely higher than your doubts as the heavens are above the earth.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For as the heavens ... - This verse is designed merely to illustrate the idea in the former. There is as great a difference between the plan…
19th Century
Baptist
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh …
16th Century
Protestant
For as the heavens are higher than the earth. This agrees well with that passage in which David, describing the mercy of God, says ([Refer…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For as the heavens, are higher than the earth Than which there cannot be conceived a greater distance: s…
Here is a gracious offer of pardon, peace, and all happiness. It will not be in vain to seek God, now that His word is calling to us and His Spirit…
13th Century
Catholic
Regarding the phrase This is the inheritance, the prophet here adds the third remedy, promising an abundance of goods to …
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