O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Parallel translations
- WEB Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
- BSB Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
- NKJV Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, And fully repays the proud person.
- NASB ¶Love the Lord, all His godly ones! The Lord watches over the faithful But fully repays the one who acts arrogantly.
- NLT Love the Lord, all you godly ones! For the Lord protects those who are loyal to him, but he harshly punishes the arrogant.
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David calls all the saints to love the Lord, who preserves the faithful and repays the proud. It exhorts the community to love and trust God.
Overview
Drawing a lesson from his experience, David urges God's people to love Him, assured that God guards the faithful and judges the arrogant. The two outcomes underscore God's justice and care. This call to love God flows from His proven faithfulness to His own.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 20
- Ps 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Ps 94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
- Ps 145:20The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
- John 10:27–30My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
- Ps 34:9O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
- Ps 30:4Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
- Deut 33:3Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
- 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
- Ps 54:5He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
- Rev 18:6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
- Deut 10:12And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
- Ps 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
- Mark 12:23In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
- Deut 32:41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
- Jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
- Ps 145:10All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
- Rev 19:5–6And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
- Deut 30:16In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Isa 56:6Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
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