For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
- BSB For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your 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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- 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- 2 Kgs 20:3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- 2 Jn 1:4I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
- Eph 4:32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
- 2 Cor 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
- Isa 2:5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- Ps 52:1Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
- Luke 6:36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
- Ps 119:142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- Ps 101:2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
- Ps 25:5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
- 3 Jn 1:3–4For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
- Ps 85:10–13Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Matt 5:44–48But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
- 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- Eph 4:20–25But ye have not so learned Christ;
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- 1 Jn 4:19–21We love him, because he first loved us.
- Ps 86:11Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
- 1 Jn 4:7–12Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
- John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
- 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
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