Psalms 119:104
Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every FALSE way.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet are thy words to my taste, than honey to my mouth!
105Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and light to my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Psalms 97:10O ye who love LORD, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his sanctified. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:29Remove from me the way of falsehood, and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms 119:98Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
Psalms 119:128Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all [things] to be right. I hate every FALSE way.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:104-105
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John iv. 42 . To this… Read the whole commentary →