All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- BSB All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
- ESV All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- NKJV All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.
- NASB All the paths of the Lord are faithfulness and truth To those who comply with His covenant and His testimonies.
- NLT The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his covenant and obey his demands.
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Quick answer
All God's paths are steadfast love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant. God deals with his covenant people in unfailing love and truth.
Overview
David affirms that every way God leads his covenant people is marked by loving kindness and faithfulness. Even God's discipline and commands flow from his love and reliability. For those joined to God through the covenant, his dealings are wholly trustworthy, a truth supremely confirmed in Christ, the mediator of a better covenant sealed in love.
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Cross-references · 33
- Jas 5:11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
- Rom 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
- Heb 8:8–12For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
- Ps 40:11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
- Ps 103:17–18But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
- John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- Ps 119:75–76I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- Rom 2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
- Ps 91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
- Isa 43:2When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
- Isa 25:1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
- Ps 33:4For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
- Gen 5:24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- Hos 14:9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
- John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- Zeph 2:3Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.
- Ps 24:4–5He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
- Gen 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Ps 50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
- Ps 89:14Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
- Ps 18:25–26With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
- Ps 85:10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Ps 57:3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
- Gen 24:27And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
- Isa 56:1–6Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
- Acts 10:35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
- Ps 28:4–6Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
- Ps 37:23–24The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
- 2 Sam 15:20Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
- Ps 98:3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Gen 48:15–16And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
- Ps 138:7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
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