The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
Parallel translations
- KJV The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
- BSB The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.
- NKJV The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
- NASB The Law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.
- NLT They have made God’s law their own, so they will never slip from his path.
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Cross-references · 19
- Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
- Deut 6:6These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
- Isa 51:7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law: Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
- Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- Ps 37:23A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
- Deut 11:18–20Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
- Job 23:11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- Prov 4:4He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
- Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Ps 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
- Ps 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
- Ps 40:2–3He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
- Ps 44:18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
- Prov 14:15A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
- Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
- Ps 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
- Ezek 27:6Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the islands of Kittim.
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