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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:163

In 11 translations

BSB
I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
KJV
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
WEB
I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
ASV
I hate and abhor falsehood; But thy law do I love.
LSV
I have hated falsehood, indeed I detest [it], || I have loved Your law.
YLT
Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate [it], Thy law I have loved.
DBY
I hate and abhor falsehood; thy law do I love.
DRC118:163
I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.
GNV
I hate falshoode and abhorre it, but thy Lawe doe I loue.
JPS
I hate and abhor falsehood; Thy law do I love.
LXXE118:163
I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love thy law.

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Original-language editions

WLC
שֶׁ֣קֶר שָׂ֭נֵאתִי וַאֲתַעֵ֑בָה תּוֹרָתְךָ֥ אָהָֽבְתִּי׃
LXX-Br118:163
Ἀδικίαν ἐμίσησα καὶ ἐβδελυξάμην, τὸν δὲ νόμον σου ἠγάπησα.

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.
  • Romans 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
  • Proverbs 6:16–19There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, a false…
  • Psalms 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
  • 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.”
  • Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  • Psalms 119:113The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
  • Proverbs 30:8Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
  • Psalms 101:7No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
  • Ephesians 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

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

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