I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have 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 2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
- Prov 5:7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
- 1 Th 2:13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
- Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, 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 them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
- Eph 4:20–24But ye have not so learned Christ;
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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