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Psalm 119:102
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
101I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
102I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
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The word “for” makes God’s teaching the reason for staying with his ordinances, linking the speaker’s obedience to what God has taught him.
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Psalm 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.Both speakers describe keeping God’s ways through the same claim: they have not departed from him or his ordinances.
1 John 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning …Both passages connect teaching received from God with remaining, whether in his ordinances or in him.
1 Thessalonians 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as …Both passages describe God’s instruction taking effect in people: his teaching sustains obedience, and his word works in believers.
Proverbs 5:7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.Both passages pair instruction with refusing to depart, though Proverbs speaks through a father addressing his sons.
Jeremiah 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they …Both connect staying with God to his own work in people, through his teaching or the fear he puts in their hearts.
2 Samuel 22:23For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.Both speakers name God’s ordinances and affirm that they have not departed from his instruction.
Psalm 71:17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.Both address God with “you have taught me,” crediting him for instruction that has shaped the speaker’s life.
Ephesians 4:20–24But you didn’t learn Christ that way,Both refer to learning in relation to conduct, though the supplied Ephesians line gives no details about the conduct in view.
1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be …Both discuss departure, though the psalm concerns God’s ordinances and John concerns people leaving a community.
Daniel 9:5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.Both name turning aside from God’s ordinances; the psalm affirms obedience, while Daniel confesses rebellion.
Malachi 2:8But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Armies.Both concern turning away from God’s instruction; Malachi charges leaders with departure and causing others to stumble.
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Your growth in obedience has a teacher worth trusting. The speaker credits God for teaching him, and names that teaching as the reason he has stayed.
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