Psalms 119:118

God rejects all who stray from His statutes, for their deceit is futile. Departing from the word leads to ruin, however cleverly disguised.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
• Ps 119:21You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.
• Ps 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
• Isa 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
• 2 Tim 3:13while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Rev 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
• Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• Ps 78:36–37But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
• Isa 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
• Mal 4:3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.
• Ps 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
• Ps 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
• 2 Th 2:9–11The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
• Rev 14:20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

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