For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
- BSB For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is trustworthy.
- NKJV For the word of the Lord is right, And all His work is done in truth.
- NASB For the word of the Lord is right, And all His work is done in faithfulness.
- NLT For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does.
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Quick answer
God's word is upright and all his works are done in faithfulness, giving solid ground for praise.
Overview
The psalmist grounds worship in God's character: his word is reliable and his deeds are marked by faithfulness. Because God is true and trustworthy, his people can praise him with confidence. This faithfulness is supremely displayed in Christ, the Word made flesh, in whom all God's promises are yes and amen.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ps 12:6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
- Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Prov 30:5Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
- Ps 19:8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Ps 36:5–6Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
- John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- Rom 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
- Ps 25:10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Gen 24:27And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Ps 96:13Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
- Mic 2:7O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
- Ps 85:10–11Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
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