For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- BSB For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
- NKJV For You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?
- NASB For You have saved my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.
- NLT For you have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping. So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life-giving light.
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- Ps 116:8–9For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
- Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
- Rev 21:23–24The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
- Ps 145:14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
- Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
- Isa 2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
- Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
- 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Isa 38:3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Ps 86:12–13I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.
- Heb 2:15and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- John 12:35–36Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
- Jas 5:20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
- Eph 5:8–14For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- 2 Cor 1:10who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
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