I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
Parallel translations
- WEB Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
- KJV Through thy precepts I get understanding: 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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Quick answer
Through God's precepts he gains understanding, and so he hates every false way. Knowing the truth produces hatred of falsehood.
Overview
Closing the MEM stanza, the psalmist explains that understanding gained from God's precepts leads him to reject every deceptive path. Love of the truth and hatred of error grow together. This discernment marks the mature believer who, grounded in the word, can distinguish truth from the lies of the world, as Christ is the way, truth, and life (John 14:6; Heb. 5:14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
- Prov 8:13To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
- Prov 14:12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Ps 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Ps 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
- Ps 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
- Rom 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
- Ps 119:100I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
- 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.”
- Matt 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- Ps 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- Ps 119:29–30Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
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