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 toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
• 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
• Isa 63:17O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
• 1 Cor 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• 1 Kgs 8:58that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
• Jas 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
• 1 Cor 10:31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
• Deut 29:4But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
• Rev 18:4I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
• Dan 1:5–8The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.
• Prov 23:1–3When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
• 1 Kgs 22:22Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
• Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
• Num 25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
• Prov 23:6–8Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:
• 1 Cor 10:27–28But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
• Acts 10:13–14A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”

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