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Psalm 26:3

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

1By David. Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.
2Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
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God’s loving kindness stays before David’s eyes as he describes his walk, linking what he keeps in view with the truth he lives by.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Psalm 86:11Teach me your way, LORD. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.Both speak of walking in God’s truth; Psalm 86 asks for teaching, while Psalm 26 describes the walk already taken.
Psalm 48:9We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.God’s loving kindness occupies attention in both psalms, before David’s eyes in Psalm 26 and in the temple worshipers’ thoughts in Psalm 48.
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.Both describe conduct as a walk, in God’s truth in the psalm and in the light in John’s letter.
2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah …David and Hezekiah both appeal to God while describing how they have walked in truth.
2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.The shared thread is divine generosity: David speaks of God’s loving kindness, while Paul describes Christ’s grace in becoming poor for others.
2 John 1:4I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.Both use walking in truth to describe a person’s conduct, with John also naming the Father’s command.
Ephesians 4:32–5:2And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.Both connect God’s kindness with human conduct; Ephesians makes that connection concrete through kindness and forgiveness toward others.
1 John 4:19–21We love him, because he first loved us.Both connect divine love with a human response: David walks in God’s truth, and John speaks of love answering God’s prior love.
2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the …Both connect attention to the Lord with a person’s life: walking in truth in the psalm, transformation in Paul’s letter.
3 John 1:3–4For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.Walking in truth describes David’s conduct in the psalm and the conduct reported with joy in John’s letter.
John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.Truth is the shared word: David speaks of walking in God’s truth, while Jesus identifies himself as the truth.
Isaiah 2:5House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of the LORD.Both use walking to describe life directed by God, with truth named in the psalm and the LORD’s light in Isaiah.
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Encouragement

As you consider your own walk, keep David’s words about God in view too. Even while asking God to examine him, David keeps God’s loving kindness before his eyes.

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