Psalms 119:104
Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
Cross References
Psalms 97:10The Lord loves those who hate evil, he guards the lives of the faithful: from the hand of the wicked he saves them.
Psalms 119:29Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law.
Psalms 119:98Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies: for it is mine forever.
Psalms 119:128So I guide my life by your precepts, and every false way 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 →