OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 17:9

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The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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Verse 9. Perverse. Septuagint “deep.”—Unsearchable. Septuagint “man, who shall know him?” Bible.—God alone can search the heart by his own power. He enables saints to do it by the light of glory, or of prophecy; as Eliseus and Saint Peter knew secret transactions. Worthington.

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