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Psalms 119:113

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

KJV

I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love.

ASV

סֵעֲפִ֥ים שָׂנֵ֑אתִי וְֽ/תוֹרָתְ/ךָ֥ אָהָֽבְתִּי

Hebrew

Samech. Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

YLT

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֹהֵ֣ב
'hb
verb · 209×
י
y
verb · 148×
י
y
noun · 221×
סֵעֲפִ֥ים
s'pym
adjective · 1×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 29:18 — O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
  • 2Cor 10:5 — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jas 1:8 — A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  • Jer 4:14 — O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
  • Jer 4:14 — O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
  • Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
  • Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Prov 24:9 — The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
  • Ps 101:3 — I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
  • Ps 119:97 — O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
  • Ps 119:97 — O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
  • Rom 7:15 — For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
  • Rom 7:22 — For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: