For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy 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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Quick answer
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 with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- 2 Kgs 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- 2 Jn 1:4I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
- Eph 4:32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ 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, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- Isa 2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
- Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
- Luke 6:36“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- Ps 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
- Ps 25:5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
- 3 Jn 1:3–4For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
- Ps 85:10–13Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Matt 5:44–48But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
- 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
- Eph 4:20–25But you did not learn Christ that way;
- Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- 1 Jn 4:19–21We love him, because he first loved us.
- Ps 86:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
- 1 Jn 4:7–12Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Col 3:12–13Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
- 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
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