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Psalm 86:11

Teach me your way, LORD. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

9All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
10For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
11Teach me your way, LORD. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
12I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.
13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
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An undivided heart is something the speaker asks God to make, even while committing to walk in his truth, joining resolve with dependence.

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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 25:4Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.Both prayers ask the LORD to teach his way, expressing a desire to receive direction from him.
Jeremiah 32:38–39Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.The shared thread is devotion to God: the psalm asks for an undivided heart, while Jeremiah names a people belonging to him.
Psalm 5:8Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.Both speakers ask the LORD to direct their steps in his way, with Psalm 5 naming enemies as part of the need.
Psalm 143:8–10Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.Both prayers ask God to make his way known so the speaker can walk in it.
Job 34:32Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?Both texts join a request to be taught with a stated intention to act on what is learned.
Acts 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,The psalm asks for an undivided heart; Acts describes believers sharing worship and meals with singleness of heart.
Exodus 33:13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider …Both prayers ask God to show his way, linking that request with a desire to know or revere him.
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.Walking in truth is the speaker's resolve in the psalm and the conduct that brings joy in 2 John.
John 17:20–21“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,Both passages contain prayer, though the psalm concerns the speaker's own heart and Jesus speaks of praying for those who will believe.
Colossians 3:22–23Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, …Both texts connect a whole, undivided heart with fearing God; Colossians applies that connection to servants' conduct.
Ephesians 6:5Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,Both texts speak of wholehearted devotion, with the psalm asking for an undivided heart and Ephesians describing service as to Christ.
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Encouragement

The resolve to walk in God's truth comes with a request for help. Even the heart's undivided reverence is something the speaker depends on God to form.

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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).