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Psalm 63:4

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
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Notice

Raised hands make praise a bodily act, while the words “while I live” stretch that act beyond a single moment into a lifelong resolve.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 146:2While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.Both speakers pledge to praise God for as long as they live.
Psalm 104:33I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.Both passages make the whole span of life the measure of their commitment to praise God.
Psalm 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!Both passages join lifted hands with praise, and Psalm 134 names the sanctuary as the setting.
Psalm 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.Both describe hands lifted toward God; Psalm 141 connects that gesture with prayer and the evening sacrifice.
1 Timothy 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.Both describe lifted hands in worship; Paul specifies holy hands and prayer without anger and doubting.
1 Kings 8:22–66Solomon stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;Both describe a bodily gesture toward God, with Solomon spreading his hands toward heaven before the assembly.
2 Chronicles 6:12He stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his handsHands accompany worship in both passages, with the Chronicles scene taking place before the LORD’s altar.
Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.Both use the image of lifted hands, though Habakkuk applies it to the roaring deep rather than a human worshiper.
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the …Both direct lifted hands toward God, though Lamentations urges desperate prayer for starving children where the psalm speaks praise.
Lamentations 3:41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.Both describe hands lifted to God, and Lamentations joins the lifting of hands with the lifting of the heart.
Nehemiah 8:6Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped the …Both connect blessing God with lifted hands; Nehemiah describes that praise shared by Ezra and the gathered people.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Lift your hands and speak praise to God

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Encouragement

Your praise today can be one small part of a lifelong resolve. In the surrounding lines, that resolve has a reason: God’s loving kindness is better than life.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).