The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
Parallel translations
- WEB The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
- KJV The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
- ESV The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
- NKJV The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant.
- NASB The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His covenant.
- NLT The Lord is a friend to those who fear him. He teaches them his covenant.
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The LORD's intimate friendship is with those who fear him, and he shows them his covenant. God draws near in close fellowship to the reverent.
Overview
This rich verse promises that God shares his secret counsel and covenant intimacy with those who fear him. The relationship is not distant but marked by trusted friendship and revealed understanding. Such closeness finds its fullest expression in Christ, who calls his people friends and makes known to them the will of the Father.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
- John 14:21–23Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
- Eph 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
- 1 Cor 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Eph 1:18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
- Jer 31:31–34Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- Deut 4:13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
- John 17:6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
- Col 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- Matt 13:11–12He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
- John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
- Gen 18:17–19And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
- Gen 17:13Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
- Prov 3:32for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.
- Rom 11:26–27And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
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