Psalms 119:144

God's testimonies are eternally righteous, so the psalmist asks for understanding so that he may truly live. Life is found in grasping and obeying God's enduring Word.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Pet 1:23–25having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
• Ps 119:169Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Dan 12:10Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
• 1 Jn 5:20–21We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
• Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
• Ps 119:138You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
• Ps 119:152Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH
• Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
• Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
• Ps 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
• Matt 13:19When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
• Matt 5:18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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