Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- BSB May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
- ESV May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- NKJV Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
- NASB Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
- NLT May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
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- Prov 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
- Ps 41:12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
- Prov 20:7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
- Ps 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
- Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
- Ps 7:8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- 1 Sam 26:23Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
- Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
- 1 Sam 24:11–13Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
- Ps 18:20–24Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
- Acts 25:10–11But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
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