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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:167

In 11 translations

BSB
I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
KJV
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
WEB
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
ASV
My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
LSV
My soul has kept Your testimonies, || And I love them exceedingly.
YLT
Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.
DBY
My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly.
DRC118:167
My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and hath loved them exceedingly.
GNV
My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.
JPS
My soul hath observed Thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
LXXE118:167
My soul has kept thy testimonies, and loved them exceedingly.

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Original-language editions

WLC
שָֽׁמְרָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי עֵדֹתֶ֑יךָ וָאֹהֲבֵ֥ם מְאֹֽד׃
LXX-Br118:167
Ἐφύλαξεν ἡ ψυχή μου τὰ μαρτύριά σου, καὶ ἠγάπησεν αὐτὰ σφόδρα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
  • Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
  • Hebrews 10:16“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
  • John 14:21–24Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You…
  • Psalms 119:159Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
  • Psalms 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
  • Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
  • John 15:9–10As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
  • Psalms 119:6–8Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments. I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments. I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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