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Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
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The Danger of Self-Justification
Commentators unanimously highlight that Israel's greatest offense was not just their sin, but their proud declaration of innocence. Charles Spurgeon calls this self-righteousness "the great perversion at the heart of the conflict between God and humanity." By saying "I have not sinned," they closed the door to repentance and forgiveness, prompting God's judgment instead of His mercy.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Because I am innocent - Rather, "But I am innocent," or, "I am acquitted." Those bloodstains cannot be on my skirts, because now, in King Jo…
19th Century
Anglican
Yet you say ... —Once again we have the equivocating plea of the accused. She takes up the word that had been used by the accuser:…
Baptist
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me.
The most guilty people are often the most self-righteou…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here shows that the Jews possessed such a brazen front that they could not be led by any admonitions to feel any shame. Even though the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet you say, because I am innocent
Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, …
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
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13th Century
Catholic
2:36a How utterly vile you have become by repeating the same ways!
1. Here, he accuses them of crimes against their neighb…
