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163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
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Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: …
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 163)Love and hatred are the leading affections of the soul; if those be fixed aright, the rest move accordingly. Here we have them fixed aright in David. 1. He had a rooted antipathy to sin; he could not endure to think of it: I hate and abhor lying , which may be taken for all sin, inasmuch as by it we deal treacherously and perfidiously with God and put a cheat upon ourselves. Hypocrisy is lying; fa…
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