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Psalm 119:56

This is my way, that I keep your precepts. HETH

54Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
55I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night, and I obey your law.
56This is my way, that I keep your precepts. HETH
57The LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
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Notice

“This is my way” makes keeping God’s precepts a matter of how life is lived, reaching into the shape of ordinary habits.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 119:165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.Both describe a life shaped by God’s instruction: keeping his precepts here, and loving his law in verse 165.
1 John 3:19–24And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him,Both speak of life before God, though John’s words concern assurance and the psalm names obedience.
Psalm 18:18–22They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.The shared thread is dependence on the LORD: his precepts guide life here, while his support sustains the speaker in calamity.
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Encouragement

Keeping God’s precepts reaches into the habits that make up a life. In the surrounding lines, that obedience belongs with remembering his name and seeking his mercy.

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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).