I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
I hate and abhor falsehood; But thy law do I love.
Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate it , Thy law I have loved.
I hate and abhor falsehood; thy law do I love.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches12
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.
Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
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The walk8
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Romans 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
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Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
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Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
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Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
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Psalms 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
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I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
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Psalms 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
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If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices4
Obtain the same thing for yourself and strive to advance toward it; for it is able to raise you from earth to heaven. You will not advance in it without preparation or [solely] by chance. First cleanse your soul of every passion and wipe it as clean of every evil as a newly cleansed mirror. Remove far from you every recollection of wrong and anger, which most of all prevents our daily prayers from reaching God. Also remove from your heart the offenses of everyone who has ever sinned against you.
John Damascene· BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 20:175-76, 749patristic
I hate and abhor lying,.... The sin of lying in common conversation, which owes its rise to Satan, the father of lies; is common to human nature, though very dishonourable to it; exceeding unbecoming a professor of religion; and was greatly hated by David, as it ought to be by all good men, Psa 101:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 163. I hate and abhor lying. A double expression for an inexpressible loathing. Falsehood in doctrine, in life, or in speech, falsehood in any form or shape, had become utterly detestable to the Psalmist. This was a remarkable state for an Oriental, for generally lying is the delight of Easterns, and the only wrong they see in it is a want of skill in its exercise so that the liar is found out. David himself had made much progress when he had come to this.
Instead of fearing his persecutors, he fears God's Word alone (Lu 12:4, 5). The Jews inscribe in the first page of the great Bible (Ge 28:17), "How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
