Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Parallel translations
- WEB Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
- KJV Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
- NKJV Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You.
- NASB Because Your favor is better than life, My lips will praise You.
- NLT Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you!
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Quick answer
David declares God's steadfast love better than life itself, so his lips will praise him. It values God's love above mere existence.
Overview
David makes a striking confession: God's covenant love surpasses life itself in worth. Because of this, praise flows naturally from his lips. To treasure God's love above life is the heart of true devotion, fulfilled in those who count knowing Christ as gain even above all else.
Cross-references & the web
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- Phil 1:23I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- Ps 51:15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
- Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
- Ps 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- 1 Cor 6:20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
- Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- Ps 30:12that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.
- 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
- Jas 3:5–10In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- Rom 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- Hos 14:2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
- Ps 66:17I cried out to Him with my mouth and praised Him with my tongue.
- Ps 21:6For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
- Ps 4:6Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
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