Psalms 119:10

Having sought God with his whole heart, the psalmist asks not to wander from God's commandments. It matters because wholehearted devotion still needs God's keeping to stay on course.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
• 2 Chr 15:15All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
• Ps 119:2Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
• Ps 23:3He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
• Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 119:118You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
• Ps 78:37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
• Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
• Prov 21:16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
• Hos 10:2Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
• Prov 2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
• Col 3:22Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
• 1 Jn 2:15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
• 1 Sam 7:3Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
• Ezek 34:6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was no one who searched or sought.
• Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
• Matt 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
• Ps 143:8–10Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
• Zeph 1:5–6those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
• Ps 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
• 2 Pet 2:15–22forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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