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Through your precepts, I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. NUN
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Understanding Breeds Aversion to Evil
Commentators unanimously agree on the verse's clear logic: genuine understanding from God's precepts directly causes a hatred for every false way. As Albert Barnes explains, this understanding provides a correct view of God, humanity, and salvation. This moral clarity makes falsehood, sin, and deception intolerable to the believer.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Through thy precepts I get understanding — a true understanding; a correct view of things; a knowledge of you, of myself, of the hu…
19th Century
Baptist
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 …
16th Century
Protestant
By your statutes I have acquired understanding. The prophet seems here to invert the order he has just laid down. He observed that he had …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Through your precepts I get understanding Of the will of God; of his worship, the nature and manner of it; of his or…
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 …
