Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.
Parallel translations
- WEB Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
- KJV Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy 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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Quick answer
The psalmist asks to be taught good judgment and knowledge, for he believes God's commandments. It matters because sound discernment grows from trusting and learning God's word.
Overview
Trusting in God's commandments, the psalmist prays for good judgment and knowledge. Faith in the word becomes the soil in which true discernment grows. This dependence on God for wisdom points to Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge for those who believe.
Cross-references & the web
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- Phil 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
- Prov 2:1–9My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
- Jas 3:13–18Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- 1 Kgs 3:9Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
- Matt 13:11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
- Isa 11:2–4The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
- Ps 119:160The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
- Ps 119:172My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
- Neh 9:13–14You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
- Ps 72:1–2Of Solomon. Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
- 1 Kgs 3:28When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
- Judg 3:15And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
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