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Psalm 119:113
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
112I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
114You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
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Hatred of double-minded men gives this declaration of love for God's law a hard edge, within a passage about keeping God's commands and seeking his shelter.
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James 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.Both name double-mindedness: the psalm expresses hatred of double-minded men, and James describes the double-minded man as unstable in all his ways.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Love for God's law in the psalm corresponds to Paul's delight in God's law after the inward person.
Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.The connection is limited: Matthew names evils coming from the heart, while the psalm rejects double-minded men without listing their acts.
Jeremiah 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?Both address troubling inward dispositions, though Jeremiah names wicked thoughts lodged in Jerusalem's heart and the psalm names double-minded men.
Proverbs 24:9The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.Both speak of detesting people: the psalm names double-minded men, while Proverbs describes the mocker as detested by men.
Romans 7:15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.Both use the language of hatred, though Paul hates what he himself does and the psalmist hates double-minded men.
Psalm 101:3I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.Both express hatred connected with faithlessness, though Psalm 101 names the deeds of faithless men and Psalm 119 names double-minded men.
Psalm 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Both declare love for God's law; Psalm 119:97 also describes meditation on that law throughout the day.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely …Both express opposition to wrongdoing, though Isaiah urges the wicked to return for mercy and the psalm voices rejection of double-minded men.
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,Mark traces evil thoughts and acts to human hearts; its link with the psalm's rejection of double-minded men is broad.
2 Corinthians 10:5throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of …The shared concern is allegiance to God: the psalmist loves God's law, and Paul speaks of bringing thoughts into obedience to Christ.
1 Chronicles 29:18LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart …Love for God's law and the prayer for hearts prepared for God share a concern for inward devotion to him.
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Alongside this fierce rejection of double-minded men, the speaker names God as a hiding place and shield. Love for God's law is voiced from dependence on God.
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