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Psalm 25:14
The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
12What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
13His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.
14The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
15My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
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Friendship and fear share one sentence here, challenging the thought that closeness to YHWH means setting aside reverence for him.
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Jeremiah 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’Both passages speak of God showing people something: his covenant in the psalm, things unknown to Jeremiah in the prophetic promise.
John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I …Friendship includes disclosure in both passages: the LORD shows his covenant, and Jesus makes known to his friends what he heard from his Father.
Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.Both speak of God revealing something to people: his covenant to those who fear him, his secret to his servants the prophets.
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this …Both describe knowledge that God makes available to his people, with Deuteronomy distinguishing what he reveals from what remains his secret.
John 14:21–23One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal …Both connect divine disclosure with a person's response to God: fearing the LORD in the psalm, loving Jesus and keeping his commandments in John.
John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.Both connect knowledge with a person's response to God: fearing him in the psalm, desiring to do his will in John.
Ephesians 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himGod makes something known in both texts: his covenant in the psalm and the mystery of his will in Ephesians.
Ephesians 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the …Both concern knowing what God gives: his covenant in the psalm, the hope of his calling and riches of his inheritance in Ephesians.
1 Corinthians 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.Both concern knowing the things of God, though Paul speaks of spiritual discernment and the psalm of fearing the LORD.
Psalm 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”Both psalms connect honoring God with something he will show: his covenant in Psalm 25 and his salvation in Psalm 50.
Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a …Both speak of knowledge given to particular recipients: God's covenant to those who fear him, a new name to the one who overcomes.
Revelation 1:1This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel …Both describe God showing something to his people: his covenant in the psalm, things that must happen soon in Revelation.
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The promise of God's friendship stands within a prayer that still names loneliness and affliction. Those who fear YHWH have his friendship even amid that distress.
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