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Psalm 119:140

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

138You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
140Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
141I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
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The words “thoroughly tested” link the servant’s love to the proven worth of God’s promises, even amid the weariness described in the surrounding verses.

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Proverbs 30:5“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.Both affirm the soundness of what God says: his promises have been tested, and every word of his is flawless.
Psalm 12:6The LORD’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.Tested promises and silver purified seven times express the proven purity of God’s words.
Psalm 18:30As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.Both describe God’s word as tried or tested, affirming its trustworthiness.
2 Samuel 22:31As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.Both use the language of testing to describe the reliability of what God says.
Psalm 19:8The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.Both connect the quality of God’s words with a response of the heart: love here and joy in Psalm 19.
2 Peter 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.Both concern speech from God; the psalm describes tested promises, while Peter identifies the Holy Spirit as prophecy’s source.
1 John 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.Both connect love with God’s revealed words: the servant loves his promises, and John connects loving God with keeping his commandments.
Psalm 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.Love for God’s words is explicit in both verses, directed toward his promises here and his commandments in verse 47.
Romans 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.Both affirm the worth of what God has spoken, describing tested promises and a holy, righteous, good commandment.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,The servant’s love for God’s promises shares Paul’s inward delight in God’s law.
1 Peter 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,The connection is indirect: the servant loves God’s promises, while Peter urges longing for pure spiritual milk.
Romans 7:16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.Both express approval of what God has spoken: the servant loves his promises, and Paul agrees that the law is good.
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The servant speaks of loving God’s promises while worn out and despised. Love for God’s word can exist amid strain. His promises remain worthy of trust.

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