Psalms 31:3

Because God is his rock and fortress, David asks to be led and guided for God's name's sake. It grounds the request for guidance in God's reputation.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 143:10–11Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
• Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• John 16:13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
• Ps 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
• Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
• 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.
• Jer 14:7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
• Ps 25:11For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
• Ps 23:2–3He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
• Neh 9:12Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
• Ps 25:9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
• Ps 43:3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
• Ps 139:24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
• Eph 1:12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
• Ps 18:2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
• Josh 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
• Ezek 36:21–22But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
• Neh 9:19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

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