Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
BSB
ASV
Depart from me, ye evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
KJV
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
It is read that blessed Gregory, who was Pope and Doctor of the Church, had the custom that whenever he went to the study of the divine law, he always spoke these words: Depart from me, ye evildoers, and I will search the commandments of …
Depart from me, ye evildoers,.... The same with the evil thinkers, Psa 119:113; According to Aben Ezra, they that think evil commonly do it; as they devise it, they commit it.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
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He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
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Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
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Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
