For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
- KJV For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
- NKJV For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
- NASB For Your goodness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
- NLT For I am always aware of your unfailing love, and I have lived according to your truth.
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God's steadfast love is ever before David's eyes, and he has walked in God's truth. God's love is the motive and measure of his faithful life.
Overview
David explains that he keeps God's covenant love continually in view, and this shapes his walk in faithfulness to God's truth. His obedience flows from a heart fixed on God's loving kindness. This pattern, where grasping God's love produces holy living, is fulfilled in the gospel, where the love of Christ compels his people to walk in truth.
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Cross-references · 24
- 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- 2 Kgs 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- 2 Jn 1:4I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.
- Eph 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
- 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
- Isa 2:5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
- Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
- Ps 101:2I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
- Ps 25:5Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
- 3 Jn 1:3–4For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.
- Ps 85:10–13Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
- Matt 5:44–48But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
- 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- Eph 4:20–25But this is not the way you came to know Christ.
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- 1 Jn 4:19–21We love because He first loved us.
- Ps 86:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
- 1 Jn 4:7–12Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- Col 3:12–13Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
- 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
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