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Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
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A Prayer for Total Honesty
Commentators explain that the 'way of falsehood' is far more than just verbal dishonesty. It includes self-deception, hypocrisy, insincerity towards God, and following false doctrines. The psalmist prays for complete integrity, asking God to remove any tendency to act from wrong motives, profess an unfelt experience, or live under any form of delusion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Remove from me - Take it from me; cause it to depart; let me not be under its influence or power.
The way of lying - Every…
19th Century
Anglican
Way of lying. —Not of falsehood to men so much as insincerity and unfaithfulness towards God, the opposite of the truth and faithf…
Baptist
Remove from me the way of lying:
"Do not let me fall into any untrue habits. Do not let me profess to have had an experience which …
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16th Century
Protestant
Take away from me the way of falsehood. Knowing how prone human nature is to vanity and falsehood, he first asks for the sanctification of…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Remove from me the way of lying Not the sin of lying to men, and a course of it, which David was not addicted to; bu…
While the souls of the children of this world cling to the earth as their portion, the children of light are greatly burdened because of the remain…
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