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Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HE
33Teach me, LORD, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
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The request for understanding ties what you learn of God's law to how you live, reaching as far as the whole heart.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Colossians 3:23And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Both passages connect devotion to God with wholehearted action, whether keeping his law or doing one's work.
Psalm 119:10With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.Both prayers speak of the whole heart and ask God for help in keeping his commandments.
Psalm 143:8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.Both prayers ask God for knowledge that guides how a person lives.
Proverbs 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,Both passages connect keeping commandments with the heart, making obedience a matter of inward commitment.
James 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.The psalm asks God for understanding; James tells those who lack wisdom to ask God for it.
Matthew 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.Both passages connect receiving divine instruction with doing what it says.
Proverbs 2:5–6then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.Both passages concern understanding in relation to God, with the psalm stressing obedience and Proverbs naming the knowledge of God.
Psalm 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.Both verses ask God to give understanding, connecting that request with learning or keeping his commandments.
Psalm 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.Both prayers ask God to teach discernment within a life committed to his commandments.
1 Kings 3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people …Both prayers ask for understanding directed toward action: keeping God's law or judging God's people with discernment.
James 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.Both passages connect attention to God's law with obedience expressed in action.
2 Chronicles 1:10Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”Both prayers ask God for insight to carry out a responsibility: obeying his law or leading his people.
One step

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Pray Psalm 119:34 aloud before your next Bible reading

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Encouragement

Your desire to obey can include a request for help. The psalmist asks God for understanding and commits the whole heart to keeping God's law.

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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).