Let no man deceive you with vain words
With vain philosophy, vain babblings, with foolish and filthy
talking; suggesting that these were not sinful the apostle had
condemned; or that they were small sins, the frailties of human
life; and that God would take no notice of them, and they might
continue in them with impunity: such deceivers there were,
doctrinal and practical ones, who lay in wait to deceive men with
such vain pretences; and there was danger of being carried away
with their error; for the heart is deceitful and desperately
wicked, and is easily taken in such snares: wherefore the apostle
cautions against such deceptions, adding,
for because of these things;
fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolish
talking, and jesting:
the wrath of God cometh upon the children of
disobedience;
in temporal judgments, and in eternal ruin; there have been
instances of it; it is usually the case, and always if grace
prevents not; this wrath comes down from above, and sometimes
suddenly, with great force and power, like a mighty flood; and
there is no standing up under it, and against it; and though it
falls upon the children of disobedience, such as are disobedient
both to law and Gospel, are unbelievers in Christ, and not
persuadable by his ministers, are stubborn, obstinate, and
rebellious; yet it shows how much these things are displeasing to
God, and resented by him, and therefore should be avoided by his
people; and the consideration of their not being appointed to
this wrath, though deserving of it as others, and of their
deliverance from it by Christ, should engage them the more to
abstain from these sins.