You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- KJV Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- NKJV You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
- NASB You will guide me with Your plan, And afterward receive me to glory.
- NLT You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny.
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God guides him by his counsel now and will afterward receive him to glory.
Overview
Asaph trusts God for present guidance and a glorious future welcome. This hope reaches beyond earthly life toward being received into glory with God. It is among the Old Testament's clearest hints of life beyond death, a hope fulfilled and made sure in Christ, who brings many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10).
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- Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
- Isa 58:11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
- Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
- Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
- Isa 48:17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
- Ps 25:9He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
- Isa 30:21And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- Jas 1:5Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
- Ps 16:7I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.
- John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
- Isa 58:8Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- Ps 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
- Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Luke 11:13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
- Ps 143:8–10Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
- John 17:24Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
- John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
- 1 Pet 1:4–5and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
- John 17:5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
- Luke 23:46Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.
- Acts 7:59While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
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