Psalms 119:163 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶³I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

Psalms 119:163 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:128
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Proverbs 6:16-19
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: …
Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Psalms 119:29
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Amos 5:15
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.

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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; fal…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 163)

161-165. (Compare Psa 119:46, 86). awe--reverential, not slavish fear, which could not coexist with love (Psa 119:163; 1Jo 4:8). Instead of fearing his persecutors, he fears God’s Word alone (Lu 12:4, 5). The Jews inscribe in the first page of the great Bible (Ge 28:17), “How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!”