Psalms 17:4

World English Bible (2000)

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 6:11 : 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Job 31:33 : 33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, 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 works. There is none who does good. 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God. 3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
  • Ps 119:9-9 : 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
  • Prov 2:10-15 : 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; 15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
  • Matt 4:4 : 4 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
  • Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"
  • John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of 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 should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • Rev 9:11 : 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."
  • Rev 12:11 : 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

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    5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

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  • Ps 141:3-4
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    3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

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    16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

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    101 I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

  • Ps 18:21
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    21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    22 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • Ps 39:1
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    1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

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    13 With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

  • 2 Sam 22:37-38
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    37 You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

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    4 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

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    9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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    11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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    12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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    9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

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    24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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    72%

    36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

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

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    3 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.