Leviticus 19:15-20 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:11-18

We are taught here, I. To be honest and true in all our dealings, Lev. 19:11. God, who has appointed every man's property by his providence, forbids by his law the invading of that appointment, either by downright theft, You shall not steal, or by fraudulent dealing, ?You shall not cheat, or deal falsely.? Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The God of truth, who requires truth in the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-29

Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev. 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen. 1:25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is best and sufficient, and not covet monsters. Add thou not unto his works, lest he reprove thee; for it is the excellency of the work of God that nothing can, without making it worse, be either put to it or taken from it, Eccl. 3:14. As what God has joined we must not separate, so what he has... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment ,.... This is said with respect to judges and witnesses, as Aben Ezra notes; that the one should not bear false witness in a court of judicature to the perversion of justice, and the other should not pronounce an unrighteous sentence, justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor ; that is, in judgment, or in a court of judicature, when a cause of his is brought before it; though privately his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:16

Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people ,.... The word used signifies a merchant, and particularly one that deals in drugs and spices, and especially a peddler in those things, that goes about from place to place to sell them; and such having an opportunity and making use of it to carry stories of others, and report them to their disadvantage, hence it came to be used for one that carries tales from house to house, in order to curry favour for himself, and to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart ,.... Although no hatred may be expressed either by words or deeds, yet being in the heart is a breach of the sixth command, see Matthew 5:21 ; and of this a man may be guilty, when he does not attempt to save the life of his neighbour, either by bearing a testimony for him, or by delivering from danger, as preserving him from drowning, from wild beasts and thieves, as in Leviticus 19:16 ; or when he does not reprove him for sin, as in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:18

Thou shalt not avenge ,.... That is, not avenge ourselves on him that has done us an ill thing, but leave it to him to whom vengeance belongs, see Romans 12:19 ; which is done when a man does an ill thing for another, or denies to grant a favour which he has been denied by another; Jarchi thus illustrates it, one says to him (his neighbour) lend me thy sickle; he answers, no (I will not); on the morrow (the neighbour comes, who had refused, and) says to him, lend me thy hatchet; he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:19

Ye shall keep my statutes ,.... Those which follow, and which are of a different sort from what are last mentioned, of a moral nature, and are planted in the heart, as Aben Ezra says; are agreeably to the law and light of nature, and part of the work of the law written on the heart, as the apostle calls it, Romans 2:15 ; but the following are of positive institution, and depend upon the will of the lawgiver, the reasons of which are not so apparent and manifest; and therefore Jarchi calls... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:20

And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman ,.... Has carnal knowledge of her: a man and woman are expressed, signifying those that are of age, Aben Ezra observes, that according to the mystical exposition of these words, this same carnally lying is as of divers kinds, of a free man with a bondwoman, and so follows upon the above law and in connection with it: the woman is described as one that is a bondmaid ; either meaning a Canaanitish maid, as Jarchi, or an Israelitish one, as Aben... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer - רכיל rachil signifies a trader, a peddler, and is here applied to the person who travels about dealing in scandal and calumny, getting the secrets of every person and family, and retailing them wherever he goes. A more despicable character exists not: such a person is a pest to society, and should be exiled from the habitations of men. Neither shalt thou stand against the blood, etc. - Thou shalt not be as a false witness, because by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother - Thou shalt not only not do him any kind of evil, but thou shalt harbor no hatred in thy heart towards him. On the contrary, thou shalt love him as thyself, Leviticus 19:18 . Many persons suppose, from misunderstanding our Lord's words, John 13:34 , A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another, etc., that loving our neighbor as ourselves was first instituted under the Gospel. This verse shows the opinion to be unfounded: but to love another... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:11-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:17

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