God makes not only the wrath of man to turn to His praise but the misadventures of Christians too.

We often do a bad act, and make a worse excuse.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Godly parents have often been afflicted with wicked children; grace does not run in the blood, but corruption does. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume 2 (McLean, Mac Donald Publishing Company) 507