"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;It's a well known expression, in Christian circles at least, that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. However, most don't know what it means to fear God. I myself have wrestled with what that means. I came to think it means a respectful reverence for what He is and can do, and how little we truly matter in comparison.
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
However, this verse makes me think I probably overstated what it means. This verse says that to fear God is to hate evil. Then it gives us some key points of what evil is. Pride and arrogance are closely related, and both lead to thinking more of yourself than of God. Evil ways is a pretty broad description. I'm not sure what all falls under a perverted mouth, whether it's cursing or lying or all of the above.
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