May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- KJV Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- 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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Quick answer
David asks that integrity and uprightness preserve him as he waits for God. He hopes that a blameless life and patient trust will keep him.
Overview
David desires that integrity and uprightness guard him, while expressing that his ultimate hope is in waiting for God. His character and his trust go together, yet his security rests on the Lord he awaits. Such waiting faith finds its anchor in God's faithfulness, fully revealed in Christ, who preserves all who hope in him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Prov 11:3The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- Ps 41:12In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.
- Prov 20:7The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
- Ps 26:11But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
- Acts 24:16In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
- Ps 26:1Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
- Ps 7:8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- 1 Sam 26:23May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
- Dan 6:22My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”
- 1 Sam 24:11–13See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. See and know that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands. I have not sinned against you, even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
- Ps 18:20–24The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
- Acts 25:10–11Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.
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