Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
- BSB Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
- NKJV Your testimonies are very sure; Holiness adorns Your house, O Lord, forever.
- NASB Your testimonies are fully confirmed; Holiness is pleasing to Your house, Lord, forevermore.
- NLT Your royal laws cannot be changed. Your reign, O Lord, is holy forever and ever.
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God's decrees are fully trustworthy, and holiness befits His house forever. The reigning God is also the holy, reliable lawgiver.
Overview
The psalm closes by joining God's kingship to His sure word and the holiness of His dwelling. His statutes are as firm as His throne, and His people are called to holiness fitting His presence. This holiness is supremely upheld in Christ, who sanctifies His people as God's holy temple (1 Peter 1:16; Hebrews 12:14).
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- Ps 119:111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
- Ps 19:7–8The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 29:2Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
- Lev 19:2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
- Ps 119:129Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
- 1 Cor 3:16–17Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- Ps 119:144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
- Ps 119:138Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
- Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Ps 99:5Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
- Ps 99:9Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
- Lev 10:3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- John 4:24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- Rev 21:27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
- Heb 6:17–18Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Ps 5:4–7For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
- 1 Jn 5:9–13If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
- Isa 52:11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
- Zech 14:20–21In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
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