Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing. Why then do you look on the treacherous, and keep silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they?
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Where it is preached

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression II: all solid wisdom laid up in Christ cites Hab. i. 13

    …a temptation to them who have looked on, Job xxi. 7; Ps. lxxiii. 2–4, etc.; Jer. xii. 1; Hab. i. 13. The discovery of it in Christ is utterly of another nature. In him the very nature of…

  2. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Hab. i. 13

    …nor can the sons of men have any other thoughts of him (Rom. i. 18; Isa. xxxiii. 13, 14; Hab. i. 13; Ps. v. 4–6; Eph. ii. 3), — here he is now revealed peculiarly as love, as full of it…

  3. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites Hab. i. 13

    …his delighting to behold purity in others. “He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity,” Hab. i. 13. “He hath no pleasure in wickedness; the foolish shall not stand in his sight,” Ps. v. 4…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Hab 1: 13

    …and reverend is his name.’ Psa 111: 9. ‘Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil.’ Hab 1: 13. God is essentially, originally, and efficiently holy. All the holiness in men and angels…

  5. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Sin cites Hab. i. 13

    …that “nothing that defiles shall in any wise enter heaven.” (Jer. xliv. 4; Hab. i. 13; James ii. 10; Ezek. xviii. 4; Rom. vi. 23; Rom. ii. 16; Mark ix. 44; Ps. ix. 17; Matt.…

  6. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Holiness of God cites Hab 1:13

    …and abhorrence of evil. ‘Of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity.’ Hab 1:13. I. God is holy intrinsically. He is holy in his nature; his very being is made up of…

  7. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Man's Misery by the Fall cites Hab 1:13

    …is filled with violence, that the wicked oppresses the man who is more righteous than he? Hab 1:13. Whence so much fraudulence in dealing, so much falseness in friendship, such crosses in…

  8. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Faith! cites Hab. i. 13

    …cease to be a perfect God. He is one who “cannot look upon that which is iniquity.” (Hab. i. 13.) Oh, no! The world-wide love of which Jesus speaks, is a love of kindness, pity,and…

  9. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Confession cites Hab. i. 13

    …of God, that He is “of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity”1 (Hab. i. 13.) Is it not said, that He “hates all workers of iniquity”? (Psalm v. 5.) Did He not say…

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