Psalms 119:101 · KJV
“I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.”
— Psalms 119:101
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
Psalms 119 — Context
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies {are} my meditation.
100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! {yea, sweeter} than honey to my mouth! {taste: Heb. palate}
Cross References
1 Peter 3:10-11
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Psalms 119:104
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. {the unrighteous...: Heb. the man of iniquity} {abundantly...: Heb. multiply to pardon}
1 Peter 2:1-2
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Psalms 119:59-60
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Titus 2:11-12
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, {hath...: or, to all men, hath appeared}
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid...: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}