Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Parallel translations
- KJV Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- BSB Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
- NKJV Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- NASB Give me understanding, so that I may comply with Your Law And keep it with all my heart.
- NLT Give me understanding and I will obey your instructions; I will put them into practice with all my heart.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
- Prov 2:5–6then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
- Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
- Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
- Jas 2:8–12However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
- Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
- Ps 111:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
- Jas 3:13–18Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
- Matt 5:19Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
- Ps 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
- Jas 4:11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
- Deut 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
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