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101I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: …
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.
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 101)Here is, 1. David’s care to avoid the ways of sin: “ I have refrained my feet from the evil ways they were ready to step aside into. I checked myself and drew back as soon as I was aware that I was entering into temptation.” Though it was a broad way, a green way, a pleasant way, and a way that many walked in, yet, being a sinful way, it was an evil way, and he refrained his feet from it, foreseei…
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