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Psalm 119:168

I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. TAV

166I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.
167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
168I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. TAV
169Let my cry come before you, LORD. Give me understanding according to your word.
170Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.
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The words “all my ways are before you” make obedience personal, extending life before God beyond what other people can see.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Proverbs 5:21For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.Both passages describe human ways as open before God, with Proverbs stressing that he examines every path.
Psalm 139:3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.Both speak of all a person’s ways being known to God, with Psalm 139 including movement and rest.
Psalm 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,Both concern faithfulness to God: one affirms obedience, while the other considers forgetting God and worshiping another.
Jeremiah 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.Both declare that human life is visible to God; Jeremiah makes clear that secret places offer no concealment.
Job 34:21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.Both describe God seeing a person’s ways, with Job stating that his sight extends to every going.
Revelation 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according …Both connect conduct with divine knowledge; Revelation adds an explicit threat of death and judgment according to deeds.
Psalm 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.The shared ground is poetic expression: Psalm 119:168 concerns obedience before God, while Psalm 98:8 portrays creation rejoicing.
Hebrews 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.Both describe life as open before God, while Hebrews states that every creature must give an account to him.
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Your efforts to obey may pass unseen by others. They remain before God, whose precepts guide a life that is never hidden from him.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).