Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
- BSB Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
- NKJV Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me.
- NASB Establish my footsteps in Your word, And do not let any wrongdoing have power over me.
- NLT Guide my steps by your word, so I will not be overcome by evil.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
- Ps 19:13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
- Ps 119:116Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
- Rom 6:12–14Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
- Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- Rom 7:23–24but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
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