Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Parallel translations
- KJV Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
- BSB Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
- NKJV Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble.
- NASB Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble.
- NLT Those who love your instructions have great peace and do not stumble.
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Quick answer
Those who love God's law enjoy great peace, and nothing makes them stumble. Loving God's Word brings deep stability and peace.
Overview
The psalmist promises that wholehearted love for God's law yields 'great peace' and a steadiness that resists stumbling. This peace is not the absence of trouble but a settled security rooted in God. It points to the peace Christ gives, a peace the world cannot give, which keeps His people from being ultimately tripped up.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Prov 3:1–2My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Isa 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
- Isa 26:3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
- John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
- Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
- Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- 1 Pet 2:6–8Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Prov 3:23Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.
- Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
- Isa 57:21“There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”
- 1 Jn 2:10He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
- Matt 13:21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
- Gal 6:15–16For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
- Isa 28:13Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
- Isa 8:13–15Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
- Isa 57:14He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
- Matt 24:24For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
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