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 my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
• Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
• Ps 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
• Isa 63:3“I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Rev 18:23The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
• Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Ps 78:36–37But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
• Isa 25:10For in this mountain Yahweh’s hand will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
• Mal 4:3You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• 1 Jn 2:21I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
• Ps 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
• Ps 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
• 2 Th 2:9–11even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Rev 14:20The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.

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