Psalms 119:67

Before affliction the psalmist went astray, but now he keeps God's word. It matters because God can use suffering to draw wandering hearts back to obedience.

Cross-references · 15

• Jer 31:18–19I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• Ps 119:71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
• Hos 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
• Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
• Ps 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
• Heb 12:5–11And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
• Rev 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Jer 22:21I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
• 2 Chr 33:9–13So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
• Prov 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
• 2 Sam 11:2–27One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
• 2 Sam 10:19When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
• Ps 73:5–28They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.

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