Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Parallel translations
- KJV Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
- BSB Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
- NKJV Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
- NASB ¶Teach me Your way, Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
- NLT Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
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- Jer 32:38–39and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
- Ps 25:4–5Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
- Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
- Ps 143:8–10Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
- Ps 119:33Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
- Job 34:32Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
- Ps 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
- Ps 27:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
- Ps 26:3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
- 2 Jn 1:4I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
- John 17:20–21Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
- Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
- Col 3:22–23Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
- Col 3:17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
- 3 Jn 1:3–4For I rejoiced greatly, when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
- 1 Cor 10:21You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
- Mal 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
- Eph 4:21if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
- Ps 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
- John 6:45–46It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- 1 Cor 6:17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
- Zeph 1:5those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
- Matt 6:22–24“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
- Acts 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
- Hos 14:8Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
- Hos 10:2Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
- 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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