Psalm 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

Do you think of hate and abhor as being much the same thing? If you hate something, why should you abhor is also? The study of the word abhor is difficult. In the Hebrew it has multiple words translated into English to render a sense of the emotion, reaction and condition of something which God does not want to be part of life or relationship. In the Greek the word only appears once in Romans where Paul uses the word to imply something that makes one shutter in horror.

I discovered more insight within the Hebrew meanings which might help explain the use of abhor here in this verse. Strangely it is attached to cause of action which does not produce expected result. There is an implication that God intervenes. It is linked to a farmers cattle, which when semen is introduce results in a natural abortion, that the seed that was planted was rejected, and did not take root in the womb.

I hate lying, but find myself at times lying. The fact that I hate lying does not stop me from performing the act. Rationale for the act does nothing to remove that act. It is sin and sin has consequences. This is where abhor takes place. The seed has been sown and there is an expected result, but God intervenes and no root is started, a natural abortion occurs.

Ephesians 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Being filled leaves no room for anything else to take root.