So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
Psalm 141:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Incline my heart not to submit or consent to any evil thing or to be occupied in deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties. American Standard Version (1901) Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties. Common English Bible Don’t let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don’t do wicked things with evildoers, so I don’t taste their delicacies. Catholic Public Domain Version Though my spirit may become faint within me, even then, you have known my paths. Along this way, which I have been walking, they have hidden a snare for me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When my spirit failed me, then thou newest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. |
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
But the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your kingdom, I will not go in with you, nor will I eat food or drink water in this place.
‘How?’ the Lord asked him. He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.’
but incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances that he commanded our ancestors.
Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while mischief is in their hearts.
Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.
These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you do not take part in her sins and so that you do not share in her plagues,