159 Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion. 160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever. 161 Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
Psalms 119:159–161
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Psalms 119:141–143
141 I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts. 142 Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true. 143 Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
Psalms 119:85–87
85 The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law. 86 All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me! 87 They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.
Psalms 119:76–78
76 May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant. 77 May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight. 78 May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
Psalms 119:39–41
39 Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good. 40 How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness. 41 May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
Psalms 119:171–173
171 My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes. 172 My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous. 173 May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
Psalms 119:92–94
92 If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction. 93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me. 94 I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
Psalms 119:166–168
166 I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments. 167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly. 168 I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
Psalms 26:2–4
2 Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind. 3 For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth. 4 I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
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