And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
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Gill's Exposition
Follow peace with all men,.... That are in a natural and domestic relation to one another, being of the same family; and that are in a civil and political one, being of the same nation, city, or…
Barnes' Notes
And make straight paths for your feet - Margin, “even.” The word used here means properly straight, in the sense of upright, erect; Act 14:10; but it is used here in the sense of straight…
Adam Clarke
Make straight paths for your feet - That is, Take the straight path that is before you, do not go in crooked or rough ways, where are stones, briers, and thorns, by which you will be inevitably lamed,…
Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their…
Cambridge Bible
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way Lit. "that the lame (i.e. lameness) may not be quite out of joint, but may rather be cured." The verb ἐκτραπῇ maymean "be turned out of the way," as in…
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