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I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Psalms 40:10 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
  • BSB I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.
  • NKJV I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth From the great assembly.
  • NASB I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great congregation.
  • NLT I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness.

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Quick answer

David has not hidden God's righteousness, faithfulness, and steadfast love but declared them publicly. He fully proclaims God's saving character.

Overview

He piles up covenant terms, righteousness, faithfulness, salvation, lovingkindness, and truth, to describe what he openly testifies. Nothing of God's goodness is concealed in his heart alone. This open confession models the witness owed to the God who saves.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Rom 1:16–17For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
  • Acts 20:20–21how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
  • 1 Tim 1:15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
  • Rom 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
  • Luke 2:30–32for my eyes have seen your salvation,
  • 1 Th 1:8For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.
  • Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
  • Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Luke 3:6All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”
  • Acts 13:32–33We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,
  • Rom 3:22–26even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
  • Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
  • Ezek 3:17–18“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
  • Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Ps 89:1A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
  • Ezek 2:7You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
  • Acts 20:26–27Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
  • Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
  • Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
  • Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
  • John 3:16–17For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 40:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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