Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
- 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.
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- Prov 3:1–2My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- Isa 32:17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
- Isa 26:3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
- John 14:27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
- Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
- 1 Pet 2:6–8Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
- Prov 3:23Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
- Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
- Isa 57:21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
- 1 Jn 2:10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
- Matt 13:21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
- Gal 6:15–16For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
- Isa 28:13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
- Isa 8:13–15Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
- Isa 57:14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
- Matt 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
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