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Psalm 119:6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
4You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
6Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
7I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
8I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. BETH
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The word “all” gives this hope of avoiding disappointment its scope: the writer longs for steadfast obedience that takes every commandment of God into account.
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Deuteronomy 28:1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD …Both passages emphasize all of God’s commandments and connect attention to them with an outcome the hearer or writer desires.
1 John 2:28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming.Both express hope of avoiding shame or disappointment, with John locating that hope in remaining in Christ until his appearing.
Job 22:26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.Eliphaz’s words describe lifting one’s face to God; the psalm expresses a related hope of facing God without disappointment.
John 15:14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.Both give weight to the full scope of commanded obedience: all God’s commandments in the psalm, whatever Jesus commands in John.
Psalm 119:80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAPFBoth connect freedom from disappointment with wholehearted regard for God’s commands, expressed as a blameless heart in verse 80.
Psalm 119:31I cling to your statutes, LORD. Don’t let me be disappointed.Both link attachment to God’s instruction with the hope of avoiding disappointment; verse 31 makes that hope a direct plea.
Psalm 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEBoth use the language of considering all God’s instruction; verse 128 adds an explicit rejection of every false way.
Daniel 12:2–3Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.The connection is limited to unwelcome outcomes: disappointment in the psalm and shame after resurrection in Daniel.
James 2:10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.Both treat God’s commands as a whole, with James spelling out the guilt of stumbling at even one point.
1 John 3:20–21because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.The connection is limited: the psalm concerns disappointment when considering God’s commands, while John addresses a condemning heart before God.
Matthew 5:19Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do …Both give weight to every commandment; Matthew specifies that even the least commandments matter for conduct and teaching.
Psalm 119:117Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.Both connect regard for God’s instruction with a hoped-for outcome; verse 117 asks God for the support that sustains such regard.
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The writer’s hope follows a plea for steadfast ways. There is room to acknowledge your need for help while taking the whole of God’s commandments seriously.
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