Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
Parallel translations
- KJV Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
- BSB Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
- NKJV Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, And I shall keep it to the end.
- NASB ¶Teach me the way of Your statutes, Lord, And I shall comply with it to the end.
- NLT Teach me your decrees, O Lord; I will keep them to the end.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to teach him the way of His statutes, promising to keep them to the end. It matters because lasting obedience depends on God's instruction and perseverance.
Overview
Opening the He stanza, the psalmist prays for God Himself to teach His statutes and vows to keep them to the very end. He desires not just knowledge but enduring faithfulness. This prayer for perseverance is answered in the gospel, where God who begins a good work in believers brings it to completion in Christ.
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Cross-references · 13
- Ps 119:26–27I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
- 1 Jn 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
- Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
- Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
- Ps 119:12Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
- Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
- John 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- Rev 2:26He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
- 1 Cor 1:7–8so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- Ps 119:8I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. BET
- Ps 119:112I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
- 1 Jn 2:19–20They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
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