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Obedience Requires Avoidance
Commentators explain that keeping God's word is not a passive activity. It requires a deliberate, proactive decision to turn away from "every evil way." The psalmist refrains from sin for the specific purpose of being able to faithfully follow God's commands, showing a direct link between avoiding evil and pursuing righteousness.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 119:101
18th Century
Theologian
I have refrained my feet from every evil way - I have walked in the path which your law marks out. I have avoided the way of wicked…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 119:101–104
19th Century
Preacher
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. How …
John Calvin
On Psalms 119:101
16th Century
Theologian
I have restrained my feet from every evil path, he intimates that he proclaimed war against every vice, so that he might wholly devote him…
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John Gill
On Psalms 119:101
17th Century
Pastor
I have refrained my feet from every evil way
Of error or immorality, forbidden and condemned by the word of God; eve…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 119:97–104
17th Century
Minister
What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in …