For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Parallel translations
- KJV For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
- BSB For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.
- NKJV For all His judgments were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
- NASB For all His judgments were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
- NLT I have followed all his regulations; I have never abandoned his decrees.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
- Ps 119:112I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
- Ps 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Ps 119:117Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.
- John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
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