This is my way, that I keep your precepts. CHET
Parallel translations
- KJV This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
- BSB This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.
- NKJV This has become mine, Because I kept Your precepts. ח Heth
- NASB This has become mine, That I comply with Your precepts. Heth
- NLT This is how I spend my life: obeying your commandments. Heth
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Cross-references · 3
- Ps 119:165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
- 1 Jn 3:19–24And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
- Ps 18:18–22They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
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