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 my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• 1 Sam 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
• 1 Sam 24:9–15David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
• Ps 119:157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 119:23Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
• John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
• Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
• Jer 36:23–25When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
• Gen 39:9No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
• Neh 5:15But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
• 1 Sam 21:15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”
• 2 Kgs 22:19because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
• Gen 42:18Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

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