Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- BSB How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
- NKJV Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. ו Waw
- NASB Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness. Vav
- NLT I long to obey your commandments! Renew my life with your goodness. Waw
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- John 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
- Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
- Phil 3:13–14Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
- 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
- Matt 26:41Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
- Ps 119:149Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
- Ps 119:107I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
- Ps 119:156Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.
- Gal 5:17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
- Ps 119:88Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED
- Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
- 3 Jn 1:2Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
- Ps 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
- John 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
- Mark 9:24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
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