Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
Parallel translations
- KJV Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
- BSB Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
- NKJV Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.
- NASB Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
- NLT Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.
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- Prov 16:3Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
- 1 Pet 5:7casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- Phil 4:6–7In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Ps 55:22Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
- Jas 4:15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
- Job 22:28You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
- Luke 12:29–30Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
- Ps 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- Lam 3:37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
- Luke 12:22He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Eccl 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
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