Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Psalms 97:10You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
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 →