New Living Translation
Psalms 119:104
104Your commandments give me understanding; no wonder I hate every false way of life.
Psalms 119:104 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- New International Version (NIV)I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
Context of Psalms 119:104
102I haven’t turned away from your regulations, for you have taught me well. 103How sweet your words taste to me; they are sweeter than honey. Your commandments give me understanding; no wonder I hate every false way of life. 105Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. 106I’ve promised it once, and I’ll promise it again: I will obey your righteous regulations.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:104 word by word
מִפִּקּוּדֶ֥יךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן שָׂנֵ֤אתִי׀ כָּל־אֹ֬רַח שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:104
- Psalms 119:98Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are my constant guide.
- Psalms 119:128Each of your commandments is right. That is why I hate every false way.
- Psalms 36:4They lie awake at night, hatching sinful plots. Their actions are never good. They make no attempt to turn from evil.
- Psalms 97:10You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked.
- Psalms 101:3I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all who deal crookedly; I will have nothing to do with them.
- Proverbs 8:13All who fear the Lord will hate evil. Therefore, I hate pride and arrogance, corruption and perverse speech.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.
- Romans 12:9Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.
- Psalms 119:29Keep me from lying to myself; give me the privilege of knowing your instructions.
- Proverbs 14:12There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
- Matthew 7:13“You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:104
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 104Through thy precepts I get understanding - Spiritual knowledge increases while we tread in the path of obedience. Obedience is the grand means of growth and instruction. Obedience trades with the talent of grace, and thus grace becomes multiplied.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 104Through thy precepts I get understanding - A true understanding; a correct view of things; a knowledge of thee, of myself, of the human character, of the destiny of man, of the way of salvation - the best, and the only essential knowledge for man. This knowledge the psalmist obtained from the “precepts” of God; that is, all that God had communicated by revelation. This passage expresses in few words what had been said more at length in Psalm 119:98-100…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 97-104Verses 97-104 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 his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness, attend God in holy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 103-104Wisdom is better than the finest food (Psalm 19:10; 81:16). The psalmist had already turned away from the false promises of foolishness (see Psalm 119:18, 78, 86, 163).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 101-104101-104. Avoidance of sinful courses is both the effect and means of increasing in divine knowledge (compare Psa 19:10). NUN. (Psa 119:105-112).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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