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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalms 84:11 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
  • BSB For 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.
  • NKJV For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
  • NASB For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
  • NLT For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right.

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The LORD God is a sun and shield who gives grace and glory and withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. God is both our light and our protection, generously giving every good gift to His own.

Overview

God as sun gives life and light; as shield He defends. He freely bestows grace now and glory hereafter, withholding nothing good from those who walk uprightly in faith. This abundant goodness finds its fullest expression in the gospel, where God, who did not spare His own Son, graciously gives His people all things in Christ (Rom. 8:32).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 28

  • Ps 34:9–10O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
  • Prov 2:7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Phil 4:19But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 85:12Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
  • Prov 10:9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
  • Ps 3:3But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
  • John 8:12Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
  • Rev 21:23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
  • Gen 15:1After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
  • Isa 60:19–20The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
  • Mal 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
  • Ps 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
  • Prov 28:18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
  • Phil 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
  • Ps 15:2He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
  • John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
  • Prov 28:6Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
  • Ps 119:114Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
  • 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • Rom 8:16–18The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
  • Mic 2:7O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
  • Ps 84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
  • 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
  • John 1:9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
  • Gal 2:14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
  • Ps 115:9–11O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  • Ps 47:9The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

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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 84:11 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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