I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Parallel translations
- KJV I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
- BSB I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
- NKJV I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word.
- NASB I have restrained my feet from every evil way, So that I may keep Your word.
- NLT I have refused to walk on any evil path, so that I may remain obedient to your word.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Prov 1:15My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
- 1 Pet 3:10–11For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Ps 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
- 1 Pet 2:1–2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
- Ps 119:59–60I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
- Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- Ps 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
- Ps 119:126It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
- Jer 2:36Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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