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 away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
• Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
• Jas 1:13–15Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
• 2 Sam 11:2–3And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
• Prov 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
• Matt 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Ps 40:4Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
• Exod 20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
• 1 Sam 12:20–21And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
• Deut 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• Jer 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Gal 4:9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
• Josh 23:6Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
• Eccl 6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Exod 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• 2 Pet 2:21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
• Isa 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
• Isa 30:11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Ps 14:3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 119:113I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
• Ps 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Hos 7:6–7For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
• 1 Kgs 21:2–29And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
• Zeph 1:5–6And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
• Ps 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Ps 39:1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
• Ps 78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
• Mic 2:2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Deut 13:17And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
• Prov 23:31–35Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
• Ps 18:20–23The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
• 1 Sam 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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