OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 9:4

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As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,

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Verse 4. Simplicity of heart. That is, in the sincerity and integrity of a single heart, as opposite to all double-dealing and deceit. Challoner.—External worship alone will not be acceptable. Worthington.—“God is worshipped by faith, hope, and charity.” Saint Augustine Ench. iii.

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