Psalms 141:4

David prays that his heart not be drawn to evil deeds or to share in the wicked's delicacies. It asks God to keep his desires pure and uncompromised.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 119:36Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
• Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
• 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
• Isa 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
• 1 Cor 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
• 1 Kgs 8:58May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
• Jas 1:13When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.
• 1 Cor 10:31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
• Deut 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
• Rev 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
• Dan 1:5–8The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.
• Prov 23:1–3When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
• 1 Kgs 22:22And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’
• Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
• Num 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
• Prov 23:6–8Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
• 1 Cor 10:27–28If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.
• Acts 10:13–14Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

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