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Psalm 31:23
Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
21Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
23Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.
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The command to love YHWH comes with both protection and judgment, giving warmth and weight to the way his people live before him.
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Psalm 97:10You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.Both address those who love the LORD and declare that he preserves his people, while taking evil with full seriousness.
Psalm 34:9Oh fear the LORD, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.Both address the LORD's saints, joining a command to love or fear him with assurance of his care.
Psalm 94:2Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.Psalm 31 declares that the LORD repays arrogance; Psalm 94 asks the judge of the earth to repay the proud.
Psalm 145:20The LORD preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.Both link love for the LORD with his preserving care and contrast that care with his judgment against wrongdoing.
John 10:27–30My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.Psalm 31 speaks of the LORD's faithful people; Jesus describes his sheep as those who hear his voice and follow him.
Deuteronomy 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.Both name God's saints and describe his care for them: preservation in the psalm, being in his hand in Deuteronomy.
1 Thessalonians 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and …Both urge God's people toward devotion to him: loving the LORD in the psalm and walking to please God in Thessalonians.
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.Both contrast God's keeping of his holy people with his judgment against those who do wrong.
1 Kings 3:3Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.Psalm 31 urges the saints to love the LORD; Solomon is described as loving the LORD, though his worship includes high places.
Revelation 18:6Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.Both speak of repayment for wrongdoing, though the psalm names arrogance and Revelation demands repayment according to deeds.
Deuteronomy 10:12Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God …Both command love for the LORD, with Deuteronomy also naming fear, obedience, and wholehearted service.
Mark 12:23There is no clear shared thread: the psalm urges love for the LORD, while Mark records a question about marriage at resurrection.
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The call to love YHWH comes after a cry of abandonment was heard. Trouble is real here, and so is God's care: he preserves the faithful.
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