I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Parallel translations
- KJV I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
- BSB I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.
- NKJV I have not departed from Your judgments, For You Yourself have taught me.
- NASB I have not turned aside from Your judgments, For You Yourself have taught me.
- NLT I haven’t turned away from your regulations, for you have taught me well.
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Quick answer
He has not departed from God's ordinances, because God Himself has taught him. Perseverance in the word flows from God's own instruction.
Overview
The psalmist's steadfast obedience is credited to the fact that God is his teacher. His constancy is not self-generated but the fruit of divine instruction in the heart. This points to the new covenant promise that God's people will all be taught by Him, fulfilled as the Spirit teaches believers in Christ (Isa. 54:13; John 6:45).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 1 Jn 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
- Prov 5:7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
- 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
- Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- Jer 32:40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
- Eph 4:20–24But you did not learn Christ that way;
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
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