He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
Parallel translations
- WEB He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- KJV He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- NKJV He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
- NASB He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For the sake of His name.
- NLT He renews my strength. He guides me along right paths, bringing honor to his name.
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God restores the soul and leads in righteous paths for his name's sake. He renews and rightly guides his people for his own glory.
Overview
The Lord revives the weary soul and directs his sheep along right paths, doing so to uphold his own honor. God's guidance is not merely practical but moral, leading his people in righteousness. This restoration finds its fullest meaning in Christ, who renews the fallen and leads them in the way of holiness by his Spirit, all to the glory of his name.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 24
- Isa 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- Ps 31:3For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
- Ps 19:7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
- Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Ps 143:8–10Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
- Ps 5:8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
- Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
- Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Prov 4:11I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
- Ps 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
- Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Ps 85:13Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.
- Ps 85:4–7Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Ps 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Ezek 20:14But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Hos 14:4–9I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Jer 32:37–42I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
- Jer 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!
- Ps 34:3Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
- Mic 7:8–9Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
- Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Luke 22:31–32Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
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