Psalms 17:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

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  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 6:11 : 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
  • Job 31:33 : 33 If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my heart;
  • Ps 14:1-3 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God. 3 They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word. 10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments. 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
  • Prov 2:10-15 : 10 When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul; 11 Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you; 12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:
  • Matt 4:4 : 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
  • Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said to him, It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, Go away, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and only him shall you serve.
  • John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?
  • Eph 6:17 : 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • Rev 9:11 : 11 They had a king over them, who is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    5Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

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    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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    78%

    4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to overthrow my steps.

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    77%

    11My foot has held fast to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

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  • Ps 141:3-4
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    76%

    3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

    4Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with those who do iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

  • Jer 17:16
    76%

    16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.

  • Ps 119:101
    76%

    101I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.

  • Ps 18:21
    75%

    21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
    75%

    22For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • Ps 39:1
    74%

    1I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

  • Ps 119:13
    74%

    13With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth.

  • 2 Sam 22:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    37You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

    38I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

  • Job 27:4
    73%

    4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

  • Ps 119:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9BETH. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.

    10With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments.

    11Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

  • Prov 2:12
    73%

    12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

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    73%

    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Prov 4:24
    73%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Ps 18:36
    72%

    36You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip.

  • Prov 2:20
    72%

    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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    72%

    168I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.

  • Ps 119:43
    72%

    43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I have hoped in Your judgments.

  • Prov 8:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

    8All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or perverse in them.

  • Ps 119:110
    72%

    110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.

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    72%

    8He guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of His saints.

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    72%

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

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    71%

    11I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

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    71%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

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    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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    71%

    4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

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    71%

    3He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

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    71%

    26Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

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    71%

    30Neither have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul.

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    71%

    2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

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    71%

    9From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

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    71%

    56This has come to be because I kept Your precepts.

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    71%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Ps 71:17
    71%

    17O God, you have taught me from my youth; and until now have I declared your wondrous works.

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    71%

    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

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    71%

    10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

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    71%

    7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any stain has cleaved to my hands;

  • Ps 19:13
    71%

    13Keep your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright, and shall be innocent from the great transgression.

  • Job 19:8
    71%

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 33:3
    71%

    3My words shall be from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall clearly speak knowledge.