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For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
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Belief and Profession Aligned
Commentators agree that this verse describes the pleasure of a unified faith. True wisdom is not just learned but deeply internalized in the heart ('within thee'). When this inner belief is aligned with our outward speech ('upon thy lips'), it creates a pleasant and authentic spiritual life. As Albert Barnes notes, it's the union of belief passing into profession.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What is "pleasant" in the sight of God and man is the union of two things, belief passing into profession, profession resting on belief.
19th Century
Anglican
They shall withal be fitted in your lips.— Rather, if they are established (dwell constantly) upon …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For [it is] a pleasant thing if you keep them within you , &c.] Or, "in your belly" F1 . That is, in your…
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