I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Parallel translations
- KJV I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
- BSB I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
- NKJV I thought about my ways, And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
- NASB I considered my ways And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
- NLT I pondered the direction of my life, and I turned to follow your laws.
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- 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Lam 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
- 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
- Luke 15:17–20But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
- Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
- Ezek 18:30“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
- Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- Joel 2:13Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
- Deut 4:30–31When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
- Ezek 33:14–16Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
- Jer 8:4–6“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “‘Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
- Ezek 33:19When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
- Jer 31:18–19“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
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