Teach me good discernment 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.
- 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.
- 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
Cross-references · 15
- 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;
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Ps 119:160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN
- Ps 119:172Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
- 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,
- 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;
- 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.
- 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.
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