Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
- BSB Your promise is completely pure; therefore Your servant loves it.
- NKJV Your word is very pure; Therefore Your servant loves it.
- NASB Your word is very pure, Therefore Your servant loves it.
- NLT Your promises have been thoroughly tested; that is why I love them so much.
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 19:8Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Prov 30:5“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- Ps 12:6Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
- 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ps 18:30As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
- 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
- Rom 7:16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
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