Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Parallel translations
- KJV Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- BSB Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.
- NKJV Teach me good judgment and knowledge, For I believe Your commandments.
- NASB Teach me good discernment and knowledge, For I believe in Your commandments.
- NLT I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.
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- Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
- Prov 2:1–9My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
- 1 Kgs 3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
- 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.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
- Matt 13:11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
- Isa 11:2–4Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
- Ps 119:172Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
- Ps 119:160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Ps 72:1–2By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
- Neh 9:13–14“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
- Judg 3:15But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
- 1 Kgs 3:28All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
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