I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
Parallel translations
- KJV I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
- BSB I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
- ESV I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.
- NKJV I hate and abhor lying, But I love Your law.
- NASB I hate and loathe falsehood, But I love Your Law.
- NLT I hate and abhor all falsehood, but I love your instructions.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Prov 6:16–19There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
- Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
- Ps 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
- 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.”
- Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
- Ps 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
- Ps 101:7He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
- Prov 30:8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
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