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 your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• John 16:13However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
• Ps 79:9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
• Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
• 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.
• Jer 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
• Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
• Ps 23:2–3He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
• Neh 9:12Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
• Ps 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
• Ps 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
• Ps 139:24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
• Eph 1:12to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
• Ps 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
• Josh 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
• Ezek 36:21–22But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.
• Neh 9:19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

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