Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Parallel translations
- KJV O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
- BSB Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
- NKJV Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
- NASB ¶Prolong Your mercy to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright of heart.
- NLT Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you; give justice to those with honest hearts.
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- Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
- Heb 8:11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
- Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Ps 97:10–11You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Ps 9:10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
- 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- Ps 143:1–2A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Ps 18:24–25Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
- Ps 94:14–15For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
- Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
- Isa 51:6–8Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment; and its inhabitants will die in the same way: but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Ps 7:8–10Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
- John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
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