The KJV text: Psalm 4:2 How long will ye love
vanity, and seek after leasing?
NKJ Psalm 4:2 How long, O you sons of men, Will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love
worthlessness And seek falsehood.
"Hence, nothing
more pestilential and destructive can be taught a Christian than moral
philosophy and the decrees of men, if they be so set before him as to make him
believe that he can walk in and by them so as to please God. For by such
instruction it will come to pass that, relying on this wisdom, he will judge,
condemn, and persecute whatever he sees is against him, and will thereby reject
the cross of Christ and utterly despise the way of God, which is in its best
and most propitious state when we are following, as through a desert and
wilderness, Christ in a pillar of fire.
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The Sander collection of devotions based on the texts of Luther's work, for June 15.