Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
Parallel translations
- KJV Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
- BSB Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.
- NKJV Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word.
- NASB ¶Deal generously with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word.
- NLT Be good to your servant, that I may live and obey your word.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 13:6I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.
- Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
- Ps 116:7Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
- Ps 119:124Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
- Ps 119:65Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.
- 1 Jn 5:3–4For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
- 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
- Phil 4:19My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
- John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
- Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- 2 Cor 9:7–11Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
- Rom 8:2–4For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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