Psalm 141:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!

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King 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.

Psalm 141:4 Cross References

Genesis 27:14

So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.

1 Kings 13:8

And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place;

1 Kings 22:22

And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.’

1 Kings 8:58

that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to gain!

Psalm 28:3

Take me not off with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.

Numbers 25:2

These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

Matthew 6:13

And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.

1 Corinthians 10:31

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 29:4

but to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

James 1:13

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one;

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;