Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Matthew Henry’s Commentary:
- We have here an account of the way and end of a great many self-deluded souls.
- 1. Their way is seemingly fair: It seems right to themselves; they please themselves with a fancy that they are as they should be, that their opinions and practices are good, and such as will bear them out.
- The way of ignorance and carelessness, the way of worldliness and earthly-mindedness, the way of sensuality and flesh-pleasing, seem right to those that walk in them, much more the way of hypocrisy in religion, external performances, partial reformations, and blind zeal; this they imagine will bring them to heaven; they flatter themselves in their own eyes that all will be well at last.
- 2. Their end is really fearful, and the more so for their mistake: It is the ways of death, eternal death; their iniquity will certainly be their rum, and they will perish with a lie in their right hand.
- Self-deceivers will prove in the end self destroyers
