Psalms 119:113

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

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

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

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

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"I have hated the unrighteous; and Your law have I loved" [Psalm 119:113]. He says not, I hate the wicked, and love the righteous; or, I hate iniquity, and love Your law; but, after saying, "I have hated the unrighteous," he explains why, by adding, "and Your law have I loved;" to show, that he did not hate human nature in unrighteous men, but their unrighteousness whereby they are foes to the law, which he loves.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 113–120

Here is a dread of the risings of sin, and the first beginnings of it. The more we love the law of God, the more watchful we shall be, lest vain thoughts draw us from what we love. Would we make progress in keeping God's commands, we must be separate from evil-doers. The believer could not live without the grace of God; but, supported by his hand, his spiritual life shall be maintained. Our holy security is grounded on Divine supports. All departure from God's statutes is error, and will prove fatal. Their cunning is falsehood. There is a day coming which will put the wicked into everlasting fire, the fit place for the dross. See what comes of sin Surely we who fall so low in devout affections, should fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into heavenly rest, any of us should be found to come short of it, He 4:1.

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