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All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 25:10 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto 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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 33

  • Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
  • Heb 8:8–12For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
  • Ps 40:11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
  • Ps 103:17–18But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 119:75–76Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
  • Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
  • Ps 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
  • Isa 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
  • Isa 25:1Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
  • Ps 33:4For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
  • Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
  • Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
  • Zeph 2:3Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
  • Ps 24:4–5He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
  • Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
  • Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
  • Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
  • Ps 89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
  • Ps 18:25–26With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
  • Ps 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
  • Ps 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
  • Gen 24:27He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
  • Isa 56:1–6Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
  • Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
  • Ps 28:4–6Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
  • Ps 37:23–24A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
  • 2 Sam 15:20Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”
  • Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Gen 48:15–16He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
  • Ps 138:7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 25:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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