Psalm 119:101 {118:101}
Good News Translation
I have avoided all evil conduct, because I want to obey your word.

New Revised Standard Version
I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.

Contemporary English Version
I obey your word instead of following a way that leads to trouble.

New American Bible
I keep my steps from every evil path, that I may observe your word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.

refrained

Psalm 119:59,60,104,126 I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. . . .

Psalm 18:23 And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

Proverbs 1:15 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Jeremiah 2:36 How exceeding base art thou become, going the same ways over again! and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Titus 2:11,12 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

1 Peter 2:1,2 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, . . .

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. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
100I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments. 101I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.102I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.…
Cross References
Psalm 17:4
That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.

Proverbs 1:15
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Jeremiah 14:10
Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins.

Psalm 119:100
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