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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:104

In 11 translations

BSB
I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
KJV
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
WEB
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
ASV
Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
LSV
I have understanding from Your precepts, || Therefore I have hated every false path!
YLT
From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
DBY
From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.
DRC118:104
By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity.
GNV
By thy precepts I haue gotten vnderstanding: therefore I hate all the wayes of falshoode.
JPS
From Thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
LXXE118:104
I gain understanding by thy commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.

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Original-language editions

WLC
מִפִּקּוּדֶ֥יךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן שָׂנֵ֤אתִי ׀ כָּל־אֹ֬רַח שָֽׁקֶר׃
LXX-Br118:104
Ἀπὸ τῶν ἐντολῶν σου συνῆκα, διὰ τοῦτο ἐμίσησα πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἀδικίας.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
  • Proverbs 8:13To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
  • Proverbs 14:12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
  • Psalms 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
  • Psalms 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
  • Psalms 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
  • Romans 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
  • Psalms 119:100I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
  • Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
  • Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
  • Psalms 119:29–30Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law. I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
  • Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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