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Psalm 119:165
Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
163I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
164Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.
165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
166I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.
167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
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“Great peace” is joined to the promise of not stumbling, a strong claim about the steadiness of those who love God’s law.
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Proverbs 3:1–2My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,Both texts describe a heart’s attachment to instruction: the psalm speaks of loving God’s law, and Proverbs urges keeping commandments in the heart.
Isaiah 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.Isaiah links righteousness with peace and confidence, while the psalm links love for God’s law with great peace and freedom from stumbling.
Isaiah 26:3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.Both connect peace with a person’s orientation toward God: love for his law in the psalm, steadfast trust in Isaiah.
John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.Peace is the shared promise: the psalm describes it among those who love God’s law, and Jesus gives his peace to his hearers.
Isaiah 54:13All your children will be taught by the LORD, and your children’s peace will be great.Both speak of great peace in connection with God’s instruction: loving his law in the psalm and being taught by him in Isaiah.
Hebrews 12:11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained …The psalm connects peace with loving God’s law; Hebrews connects peaceful righteousness with being trained through chastening.
Philippians 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.Both describe peace with a protective quality: freedom from stumbling in the psalm, and guarded hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus in Philippians.
Galatians 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,Love and peace appear in both texts, though the psalm names love for God’s law and Galatians names the Spirit’s fruit.
Isaiah 48:18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.Both connect peace with God’s commands: the psalm celebrates love for his law, while Isaiah laments the failure to listen.
Psalm 37:11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.Both psalms describe abundant peace, associated here with loving God’s law and in Psalm 37 with the humble.
1 Peter 2:6–8Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious. He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”Both offer assurance, though with different terms: lovers of God’s law will not stumble, and believers in the cornerstone will not be disappointed.
Proverbs 3:23Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.Both use stumbling to describe threatened footing and assure the reader of security against it.
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God’s law provides firm footing for those who love it. The speaker’s hope for salvation continues in the next line; great peace belongs within that ongoing dependence on God.
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