Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
"Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me." This earnest and humble prayer teaches us that saints may fall into the worst of sins unless restrained by grace, and that therefore they must watch and pray lest they enter into temptation.
Let the words of my mouth,.... Meaning either his speech in common conversation, which should not be filthy and foolish, rotten and corrupt; but such as ministers grace to the hearer: or else his address to God, both in prayer and thanksgiving; and the meditation of my heart; his inward thoughts continually revolving in his mind; or his meditation on the word of God and...
Secondly, The love of God to his saints cannot be conquered. That which puts it hardest to it, is not the power of his people's enemies, whether men or devils ; but his people's sins. God makes nothing of their whole power and wrath, when combined together ; but truly the sins of his people, these put omnipotency itself to the trial.
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20