I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. TAV
- KJV I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
- NKJV I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are before You. ת Tau
- NASB I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are before You. Tav
- NLT Yes, I obey your commandments and laws because you know everything I do. Taw
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Quick answer
He obeys God's precepts and testimonies, knowing all his ways are before God. Awareness of God's all-seeing presence shapes obedient living.
Overview
Closing the 'Sin and Shin' stanza, the psalmist obeys with the consciousness that 'all my ways are before you,' living openly under God's gaze. The knowledge that nothing is hidden from God motivates integrity. This God who sees all is the One before whom we live and to whom we are accountable, and in Christ we are accepted before Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Prov 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- Ps 139:3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
- Ps 44:20–21If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- Job 34:21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
- Jer 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- Rev 2:23Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
- Ps 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy
- Heb 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
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