How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Man is abominable and filthy in being deeply sinful and corrupt, taking in iniquity as readily, naturally, freely, and constantly as water. Those who persist in sin are deeply corrupt in drinking it in as readily and continually as water. This readiness to absorb evil belongs especially to self-indulgent people who knowingly persist in sin after receiving and understanding the light of truth. Such choices shape character and fix eternal destiny, so that repentance may come too late to undo a guilty past. Nor can late repentance erase those recorded transgressions.
Even with God's Word before them, people fulfill the verse by perverting its meaning and refusing its call to give God the whole heart. Instead of setting their minds on heavenly things, they follow a path toward ruin, drinking in sin as naturally and freely as water. The verse also describes a morally corrupt age marked by widespread iniquity and licentiousness, where people absorb evil continually. This happens because they reject God's words for human philosophy even while warnings are being given. Many ignore those warnings, taking iniquity as readily and constantly as water.
By contrast, Abel, Enoch, Seth, Methuselah, Noah, and others remained just by keeping the fear of the Lord before their generation and passing on the instruction they had received. The young fulfill the verse when their easily excited minds are stirred to bitter feelings and ungovernable passions by unwise and ungodly teachers. Without proper restraint and judicious discipline they absorb insubordination like water. Israel under Ahab and Jezebel likewise fulfilled the verse by persistently absorbing evil as the people followed idolatry and shameful revelry.
Man is abominable and filthy in being deeply sinful and corrupt, taking in iniquity as readily, naturally, freely, and constantly as water. Those who persist in sin are deeply corrupt in drinking it in as readily and continually as water.
This readiness to absorb evil belongs especially to self-indulgent people who knowingly persist in sin after receiving and understanding the light of truth. Such choices shape character and fix eternal destiny, so that repentance may come too late to undo a guilty past. Nor can late repentance erase those recorded transgressions.
Even with God's Word before them, people fulfill the verse by perverting its meaning and refusing its call to give God the whole heart. Instead of setting their minds on heavenly things, they follow a path toward ruin, drinking in sin as naturally and freely as water.
The verse also describes a morally corrupt age marked by widespread iniquity and licentiousness, where people absorb evil continually. This happens because they reject God's words for human philosophy even while warnings are being given. Many ignore those warnings, taking iniquity as readily and constantly as water.
By contrast, Abel, Enoch, Seth, Methuselah, Noah, and others remained just by keeping the fear of the Lord before their generation and passing on the instruction they had received. The young fulfill the verse when their easily excited minds are stirred to bitter feelings and ungovernable passions by unwise and ungodly teachers. Without proper restraint and judicious discipline they absorb insubordination like water. Israel under Ahab and Jezebel likewise fulfilled the verse by persistently absorbing evil as the people followed idolatry and shameful revelry.