Blessed are those who comply with His testimonies, And seek Him with all their heart.
Parallel translations
- WEB Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
- KJV Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
- BSB Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
- NKJV Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!
- NLT Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts.
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Quick answer
Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with their whole heart. It matters because God promises blessing to those who pursue him sincerely.
Overview
The second beatitude blesses those who obey God's testimonies and seek him wholeheartedly, joining outward obedience with inward devotion. Keeping God's word and seeking God himself belong together. This whole-hearted seeking is answered in Christ, in whom God is found and through whom the heart is renewed to love his word.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Jer 29:13You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
- Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
- John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
- Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Ezek 36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
- Deut 6:17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Prov 23:26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
- 1 Kgs 2:3and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
- 2 Chr 31:21In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
- Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
- 1 Jn 3:20because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
- Ps 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
- Ps 119:22Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
- Ps 119:146I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
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