Psalm 119:113 “The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.”

Psalm 119:113

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

SAMECH. I hate vaine inuentions: but thy Lawe doe I loue.

Darby Translation

SAMECH. The double-minded have I hated; but thy law do I love.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.

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Cross references

“hate”

Jeremiah 4:14 Isaiah 55:7 Mark 7:21 2 Corinthians 10:5 Psalm 94:11

Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Isaiah 55:7 · BSB

Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Mark 7:21 · BSB

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

2 Corinthians 10:5 · BSB

We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Psalm 94:11 · BSB

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

“thy law”

Psalm 119:97 Psalm 119:103

Psalm 119:97 · BSB

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

Psalm 119:103 · BSB

How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Also

James 1:8

James 1:8 · BSB

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

112I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.

114You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

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