Moreover, Your servant is warned by them; In keeping them there is great reward.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
- KJV Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
- BSB By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
- NKJV Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward.
- NLT They are a warning to your servant, a great reward for those who obey them.
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God's words warn his servant and bring great reward to those who keep them. Scripture both guards and blesses.
Overview
David testifies that God's Word functions as a faithful warning against danger and sin, and that obedience to it carries genuine blessing. The 'reward' is not earned merit but the blessedness of a life lived in step with God. The Word's warning and promise prepare the way for the next verses' confession of sin and need of grace.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 21
- Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
- Prov 29:18Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.
- Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- Heb 11:6–7Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
- Prov 6:22–23When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
- Rev 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
- Matt 6:4so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
- Heb 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
- Ezek 3:17–21“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
- 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
- Matt 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- 1 Cor 4:14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
- Prov 11:18Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
- Ezek 33:3–9if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
- Acts 20:31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
- Isa 3:10–11Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- 2 Chr 19:10Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
- Prov 3:16–18Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
- Matt 6:18so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
- Matt 6:6But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
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