Psalms 101:3

David refuses to set anything worthless before his eyes and hates faithless deeds. He guards his heart by guarding what he looks upon.

Cross-references · 38

• Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
• Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
• Jas 1:13–15Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
• 2 Sam 11:2–3At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
• Prov 6:25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
• Matt 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Ps 40:4Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
• Exod 20:17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
• 1 Sam 12:20–21Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.
• Deut 15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Gal 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
• Josh 23:6“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
• Eccl 6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Exod 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
• Ps 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
• 2 Pet 2:21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
• Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
• Ps 14:3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
• Ps 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
• Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• Hos 7:6–7For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
• 1 Kgs 21:2–29Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”
• Zeph 1:5–6those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
• Ps 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 39:1For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
• Ps 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
• Mic 2:2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Deut 13:17Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
• Prov 23:31–35Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
• Ps 18:20–23Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
• 1 Sam 15:11“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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