Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
Parallel translations
- KJV Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- BSB I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
- NKJV Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. נ Nun
- NASB From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. Nun
- NLT Your commandments give me understanding; no wonder I hate every false way of life. Nun
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
- Prov 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
- Ps 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
- 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.
- Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
- Ps 119:100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
- Ps 101:3I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
- Matt 7:13“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
- Ps 119:29–30Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
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