Psalms 19:13

David prays to be kept from deliberate sins so they will not rule him, that he may be blameless. He seeks God's restraining grace against willful rebellion.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Rom 6:12–14Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• 1 Sam 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
• Ps 7:10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
• Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Deut 17:12–13The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
• Gen 20:6God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
• Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
• Rom 6:16–22Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
• Ps 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
• Exod 21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
• 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
• 2 Pet 2:10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
• Num 15:30–31“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• 1 Sam 25:32–34David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

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