Through your precepts I gain understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.
It is not those of many days who are wise, nor the aged who understand the right.
I do not allow into my presence anything base. I hate wrongdoing; I will have no part of it.
I have more understanding than my elders, because I keep your precepts.
Thus, I follow all your precepts; every wrong way I hate.
Falsehood I hate and abhor; your law I love.
Give me understanding to keep your law, to observe it with all my heart.
Your commandment makes me wiser than my foes, as it is forever with me.
Empty and false are the words of his mouth; he has ceased to be wise and do good.
You who love the Lord, hate evil, he protects the souls of the faithful, rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
Sometimes a way seems right, but the end of it leads to death!
[The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil;] Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.
Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.
Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good;