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Psalm 146:2

While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul.
2While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
3Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.
4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
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“While I live” makes the span of a human life the measure of praise, raising the question of what deserves your voice across those years.

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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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Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”Both texts direct sustained gladness toward the Lord: lifelong praise in the psalm and rejoicing always in Philippians.
Psalm 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.Both make the same lifelong pledge to God, with singing in Psalm 146 and lifted hands in Psalm 63.
Psalm 104:33I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.Both pledge to sing praise to the LORD for as long as the speaker lives and exists.
Psalm 118:28You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.Both address God as “my God” and express a resolve to honor him through praise or thanks.
Psalm 145:1–2A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.Both name “my God” as the recipient of praise and stretch that commitment across time.
Isaiah 25:1The LORD, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and …Both join the personal confession “my God” to a stated resolve to praise the LORD.
Revelation 7:9–17After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing …Both depict devotion, though the psalm names singing and the supplied Revelation verse shows a multitude standing before the throne.
John 16:22Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.Both look beyond the present moment: the psalm pledges lifelong praise, while Jesus promises joy that no one can take away.
1 Chronicles 29:10Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.Both speak praise to the LORD across time, with David blessing him before the assembly forever and ever.
Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.Both connect being alive with praising God, treating the speaker’s present life as time for praise.
Deuteronomy 12:1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the …Both frame a response to the LORD across all living days: praise in the psalm and obedience in Deuteronomy.
Nehemiah 9:5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from …Both direct praise to the LORD as their God, with Nehemiah extending the blessing from everlasting to everlasting.
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Sing Psalm 146:2 to God before breakfast each day

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Encouragement

A lifelong resolve has room for today’s small song. The psalm’s repeated promise directs the voice toward God for the whole span of life.

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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).