Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
- KJV Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
- 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, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- Isa 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
- Isa 26:3You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
- John 14:27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.
- Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
- Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- 1 Pet 2:6–8For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- Prov 3:23Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
- Prov 3:17All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
- Isa 57:21“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
- 1 Jn 2:10Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
- Matt 13:21But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
- Gal 6:15–16For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- Isa 28:13Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
- Isa 8:13–15The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
- Isa 57:14And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
- Matt 24:24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
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