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Psalm 119:160
All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN
158I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.
160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN
161Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
162I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
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The words “All” and “Every one” test the scope of your trust, extending it to every word and righteous ordinance God has given.
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John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.Both passages declare that God’s word is truth; John records a prayer for people to be sanctified in that truth.
Proverbs 30:5“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.Both passages extend their claim to every word God speaks, describing his words as true or flawless.
2 Timothy 3:16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,Both texts connect God’s written instruction with righteousness, affirming its truth in the psalm and its teaching value in Timothy.
Psalm 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. QOPHBoth verses join righteousness with permanence: God’s testimonies and ordinances are righteous and endure forever.
Psalm 119:89LORD, your word is settled in heaven forever.The word “forever” links these declarations that God’s word is settled and his righteous ordinances endure.
Matthew 5:18For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, …Both passages affirm the endurance of God’s instruction, with Matthew extending that assurance to the law’s smallest written marks.
Psalm 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.Both verses join truth with enduring righteousness, describing God’s law as true and his righteousness or righteous ordinances as everlasting.
Psalm 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.Both verses express trust in God’s instruction; verse 66 turns that trust into a request for judgment and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 3:14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before …Both use “forever” for what belongs to God: his righteous ordinances in the psalm and his deeds in Ecclesiastes.
Romans 3:4May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you …Both affirm God’s truthfulness in what he says, with Romans contrasting his truth with human falsehood.
Nehemiah 9:13“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,Nehemiah names Sinai as the place God gave right ordinances and true laws, sharing the psalm’s language of righteousness and truth.
Leviticus 20:22“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.Both speak of God’s ordinances in their entirety; Leviticus commands Israel to keep them, while the psalm declares their enduring righteousness.
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