Proverbs 28:9

Hearing the law. The fact that the one who turns from the law of God also desires to pray suggests that he is not a careless and irreligious person, but one who objects to making the divine law the guide of his life. There are many who are willing to serve God, but wish to do it in their own way. Some accept a part of the law of God as a standard of life, others claim that the law is completely done away with. Only a few take the whole of God’s moral law as an authoritative expression of His will for His people (see John 14:15; 15:10; cf. Rom. 8:3,4).

Shall be abomination. Sin puts a barrier between God and the sinner (Isa. 59:1,2). Those who go contrary to their conscience and those who claim that the keeping of the so-called spirit of the law makes them superior to those who, by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, keep both the letter and the spirit of the law, do well to ponder this verse. While God passes over the lack of conformity to law in those who have had no opportunity to discover the claims of God upon them (Acts 17:30; Rom. 5:13), He cannot accept the service of those who have deliberately turned away from His law. To do so would sanction willful rebellion.