Psalms 119:161

Powerful rulers persecute him without cause, yet his heart stands in awe of God's words. Reverence for God outweighs fear of the powerful.

Cross-references · 14

• Isa 66:2For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
• 1 Sam 26:18And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
• 1 Sam 24:9–15And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
• Ps 119:157Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 119:23Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
• John 15:25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
• Job 31:23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
• Jer 36:23–25And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
• Gen 39:9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
• Neh 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
• 1 Sam 21:15Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
• 2 Kgs 22:19Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
• Gen 42:18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

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