I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
Parallel translations
- KJV I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
- BSB I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
- NKJV I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes Forever, to the very end. ס Samek
- NASB I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes Forever, even to the end. Samekh
- NLT I am determined to keep your decrees to the very end. Samekh
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 119:33Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
- 1 Kgs 8:58that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
- Josh 24:23“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
- Ps 119:36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
- Ps 141:4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
- Ps 119:44So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
- Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
- 2 Chr 19:3Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
- Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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