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Oct 26, 2020 · 1 Peter 2:18: “Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward .”. It is this last instance that makes the sense the clearest: “froward” is the opposite of “good and gentle.” “Froward” is from the Old English “fraward,” meaning “leading away from” (as in ...
- Froward Is…
- A Froward Heart
- A Response to The Froward
- Conclusion
To be froward means to be habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition to someone or something like a law. Someone that is being f is being willfully contrary to someone or something and is not easily managed. Similes of the word froward are crookedness, to go wrong, go crooked, backsliding, twisted, distorted, or crooked so now let’s explore...
Since we know what froward means we can see why God detests a froward heart as the psalmist writes “A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person” (101:4) because “the froward is abomination to the Lord” (Prov 3:22) so “Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee” (Prov 4:24). If “Frowardness is i...
Peter wrote “Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward” (1st Pet 2:18) showing that even if someone is froward of heart and mouth to us, we should not respond in kind because then we lower ourselves to their level. David wrote that “With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and wit...
God resists the proud (James 4:6) and the froward of heart and mouth is a proud heart and mouth and God is opposed to such a person or people. Anyone who is froward is constantly backsliding, twisted, distorted, or crooked and God will not accept such a person. If you’ve had a time in your life where you repented and trusted in Christ, then your na...
Froward. Perverse; deceitful; false. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a FROWARD mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. ( Proverbs 4:24-25 ) Source: A King James Dictionary. (Used with permission.
Quiet, Lord, My Froward Heart: The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CCXXVII Quiet, LORD, my froward heart: Make me teachable and mild, Upright, simple, free from ...
he that hath a froward heart. Proverbs 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous. Proverbs 6:12-15 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth… Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. and he ...
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight. Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked ...
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He that hath a froward heart, whose heart is not plain and upright, but false towards God or men, findeth no good; shall not get that advantage by his dissimulation which he intends and expects, but shall fall into mischief, as is implied from the opposite clause. He that hath a perverse tongue; that speaks deceitfully or wickedly. So here is a ...
