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Psalm 18:22

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
24Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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Notice

The word “all” makes David’s claim searching: God’s ordinances remained before him, including those a reader might prefer to set aside.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.Both passages speak of all God’s ordinances: David keeps them before him, and the other psalm’s speaker declares them aloud.
Psalm 119:112I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKHGod’s statutes remain close in Psalm 18, while Psalm 119 expresses a heart set on performing them to the end.
Psalm 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.Both speakers describe God’s ordinances as set before them, connecting attention to his commands with the way they live.
Psalm 119:117Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.Both passages describe sustained regard for God’s statutes, with Psalm 119 adding a plea for God’s support.
John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”The shared thread is obedience: David keeps God’s statutes before him, while Jesus tells the healed man to stop sinning.
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Encouragement

God’s commands have a place in the choices before you today. David’s claim is concrete: he kept God’s ordinances in view and did not put them away.

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