Psalms 119:128

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

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WEBBE

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

BSB

Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

KJV

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

ASV

Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts concerning all [things] to be right; [And] I hate every false way.

BBE

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

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The early church

"Therefore," he saith, "was I made straight unto all Thy commandments" (ver. 128). I was made straight, doubtless, because I loved them; and I clung by love to them, which were straight, that I might also myself become straight. Then what he addeth, naturally follows: "and every unrighteous way I utterly abhor." For how could it be that he who loved the straight could do aught save abhor an unrighteous way? For as, if he loved gold and precious stones, he would abhor all that might bring loss of such property: thus, since he loved the commandments of God, he abhorred the path of iniquity, as one of the most savage rocks in the sailor's track, whereon he must needs suffer shipwreck of things so precious. That this may not be his lot, he who saileth on the wood of the Cross with the divine commandments as his freight, steereth far from thence.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 121–128

Happy is the man, who, acting upon gospel principles, does justice to all around. Christ our Surety, having paid our debt and ransom, secures all the blessings of salvation to every true believer. The psalmist expects the word of God's righteousness, and no other salvation than what is secured by that word, which cannot fall to the ground. We deserve no favour form God; we are most easy when we cast ourselves upon God's mercy, and refer ourselves to it. If any man resolve to do God's will as his servant, he shall be made to know his testimonies. We must do what we can for the support of religion, and, after all, must beg of God to take the work into his own hands. It is hypocrisy to say we love God's commandments more than our worldly interests. The way of sin is a false way, being directly contrary to God's precepts, which are right: those that love and esteem God's law, hate sin, and will not be reconciled to it.

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