Solomon’s Benediction
1 Kings 8:61
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
- KJV
- Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
- WEB
- “Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
- ASV
- Let your heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
- LSV
- and your heart has been perfect with our God YHWH, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as [at] this day.”
- YLT
- and your heart hath been perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as [at] this day.'
- DBY
- and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.Elohim
- DRC
- Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.
- GNV
- Let your heart therefore be perfit with the Lord our God to walke in his statutes, and to keepe his commandements, as this day.
- JPS
- Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'
- LXXE
- And let our hearts be perfect toward the Lord our God, to walk also holily in his ordinances, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.Gr. as this day is.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְהָיָ֤ה לְבַבְכֶם֙ שָׁלֵ֔ם עִ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לָלֶ֧כֶת בְּחֻקָּ֛יו וְלִשְׁמֹ֥ר מִצְוֺתָ֖יו כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἔστωσαν αἱ καρδίαι ἡμῶν τέλειαι πρὸς Κύριον Θεὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ ὁσίως πορεύεσθαι ἐν τοῖς προστάγμασιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ φυλάσσειν ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη.
Who and where
👤 God◆ Reign of Solomon
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
DedicationPrayerSolomonTempleStavesHeart, Character of the RenewedTemple, Solomon’sPerfectionHeart, ThePerfect; Perfection
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Kings 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- 1 Kings 15:14The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
- 1 Kings 15:3And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Deuteronomy 18:13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
- Job 1:8Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be…
- Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
- Philippians 3:12–16Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.…
- Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
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