Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Destruction and misery are in their ways;
Ruin and misery are in their ways.
ruin and misery [are] in their ways,
Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.
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“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
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“Contrition and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known.” Here he speaks of a contrition, not that by which the spirit is broken over sins in repentance, whence it is said in the Psalms: “A contrite and humbled heart God does not despise;” but he speaks of that contrition by which sinners are said to break the yoke of the Lord and to cast it from their necks.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS, 253patristic
Destruction and misery are in their ways.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Destruction and misery are in their ways - destruction is their work, and Misery to themselves and to the objects of their malice is the consequence of their impious and murderous conduct.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
57:8) is prostituted to the purposes of deception." the poison of asps is under their lips-- (Ps 140:3): that is, "Those lips which should 'drop as an honeycomb,' and 'feed many,' and 'give thanks unto His name' (So 4:11;
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
Besides the destruction and misery that are at the end of their ways (death is the end of these things), destruction and misery are in their ways; their sin is its own punishment: a man needs no more to make him miserable than to be a slave to his sins.-- And the way of peace have they not known; that is, they know not how to preserve peace with others, nor how to obtain peace for themselves.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
