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Psalm 19:11
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
10They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
11Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
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The word “warned” gives God’s ordinances a protective purpose, while “great reward” raises the question of what you expect from keeping them.
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Deuteronomy 11:27the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today;Both passages connect a good outcome with heeding God’s commands: Deuteronomy speaks of blessing, and the psalm speaks of reward.
1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.The psalm declares reward in keeping God’s ordinances; Paul assures believers that their labor in the Lord is not in vain.
Psalm 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.God’s word serves a protective purpose in both psalms, warning his servant and helping guard against sin.
Hebrews 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.Both passages use the phrase “great reward,” linking it with keeping God’s ordinances in the psalm and retaining boldness in Hebrews.
2 John 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.Both passages join caution with reward: the psalm speaks of being warned, while John tells his readers to watch themselves.
2 Chronicles 15:7But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”Both passages affirm reward connected with action, whether keeping God’s ordinances or continuing the work without letting hands grow slack.
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 connect blessing or reward with putting God’s instruction into practice, emphasizing keeping the ordinances and doing the work.
Proverbs 29:18Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.Keeping God’s law is the shared thread: the psalm names great reward, and the proverb calls the person who keeps it blessed.
Hebrews 11:6–7Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.Both speak of reward in relation to God: the psalm emphasizes keeping his ordinances, while Hebrews emphasizes seeking him in faith.
Ruth 2:12May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”Both connect reward with what a person does, with Ruth’s passage naming the LORD as the giver of that reward.
Proverbs 6:22–23When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.Both describe protective guidance: the psalm speaks of being warned, while Proverbs describes being led and watched over.
Proverbs 13:13Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.Both connect reward with a person’s response to instruction, expressed as keeping God’s ordinances and respecting a command.
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God’s warnings are part of the good his word does for you. The reward remains unnamed here, yet the claim is clear: there is great reward in keeping his ordinances.
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