Psalms 119:5
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
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Psalms 119:5
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
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Genesis 8:21
And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
1 Samuel 26:19
Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.
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Exodus 8:1
And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship.
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Exodus 9:17
Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?
Exodus 18:11
Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.
Psalms 10:2
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Psalms 31:18
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
Psalms 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.
Psalms 59:12
Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
Psalms 119:69
The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.
Psalms 119:85
The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.
Psalms 119:122
Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.
Psalms 140:5
The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
Isaiah 10:12
For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
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Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
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Leviticus 27:34
These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.
Deuteronomy 4:45
These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 5:1
And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.
Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
Deuteronomy 5:32
Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 5:33
Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
Deuteronomy 6:2
So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
Deuteronomy 6:3
So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 8:1
Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
Deuteronomy 11:1
So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
1 Kings 2:3
And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,
Nehemiah 1:7
We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
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1 Samuel 23:10
Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.
1 Samuel 23:11
And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.
1 Samuel 30:8
Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.
2 Samuel 1:1
Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;
2 Samuel 5:23
And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.
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1 Kings 8:58
Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.
1 Chronicles 29:18
O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
Psalms 10:17
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
James 1:16
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
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2 Chronicles 27:6
So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.
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Job 22:3
Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?
Job 23:10
For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
Job 23:11
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
Job 23:12
I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
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Psalms 15:1
A Psalm. Of David. Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?
Psalms 15:2
He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;
Psalms 15:3
Whose tongue is not false, who does no evil to his friend, and does not take away the good name of his neighbour;
Psalms 15:4
Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.
Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
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Psalms 5:8
Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.
Psalms 25:5
Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:9
He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
Psalms 25:12
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
Psalms 119:73
JOD Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
Psalms 143:10
Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
Proverbs 8:20
I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:
Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
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Psalms 39:8
Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.
Psalms 119:116
Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.
Matthew 26:41
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
Philippians 3:16
Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.
James 3:13
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
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Psalms 78:37
And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
Psalms 119:10
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Psalms 119:48
And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
Psalms 119:57
CHETH The Lord is my heritage: I have said that I would be ruled by your words.
Psalms 119:60
I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.
Psalms 119:67
Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Psalms 119:80
Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
Psalms 119:112
My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.
Psalms 119:129
PE Your unchanging word is full of wonder; for this reason my soul keeps it.
Psalms 119:158
I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
Psalms 119:167
My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
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Nehemiah 10:29
They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;
Psalms 105:45
So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
Ezekiel 11:12
And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.
Ezekiel 11:20
So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Matthew 28:20
Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
Luke 1:6
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
Luke 1:74
That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,
Luke 1:75
In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.
John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
Acts 24:16
And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
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Psalms 119:56
This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.
Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
Psalms 119:88
Give me life in your mercy; so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth.
Psalms 119:118
You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
Psalms 119:134
Make me free from the cruel rule of man; then I will keep your orders.
Psalms 119:135
Let your servant see the shining of your face; give me knowledge of your rules.
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.
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Psalms 119:17
GIMEL Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;
Psalms 119:23
Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.
Psalms 119:25
DALETH My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
Psalms 119:27
Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.
Psalms 119:37
Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
Psalms 119:45
So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
Psalms 119:54
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Psalms 119:64
The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules.
Psalms 119:68
You are good, and your works are good; give me knowledge of your rules.
Psalms 119:124
Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.
Psalms 119:159
See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.
Psalms 119:171
Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.
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Psalms 1:1
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
Psalms 1:2
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 106:3
Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
Psalms 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
Psalms 112:1
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
Psalms 119:30
I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Psalms 119:100
I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
Psalms 119:166
Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.
Psalms 119:174
All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
Psalms 128:1
A Song of the going up. Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.
Isaiah 56:2
Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
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Proverbs 13:4
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
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2 Samuel 23:15
And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town!
Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Psalms 19:9
The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.
Psalms 27:4
One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.
Psalms 119:14
I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
Psalms 119:20
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
Psalms 119:175
Give life to my soul so that it may give you praise; and let your decisions be my support.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Isaiah 26:9
In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.
John 13:17
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
1 Timothy 6:12
Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
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2 Kings 5:3
And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.
Isaiah 14:13
For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
Jeremiah 43:2
Then Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men of pride, said to Jeremiah, You have said what is false: the Lord our God has not sent you to say, You are not to go into the land of Egypt and make your living-place there:
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Psalms 103:18
If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Micah 4:2
And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
Hebrews 8:11
And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.
Hebrews 10:1
For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
1 John 2:3
And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
1 John 2:13
I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.
1 John 2:27
As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
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Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Psalms 37:4
So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
Psalms 39:1
To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
Psalms 39:7
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.
Psalms 119:104
Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
Psalms 119:115
Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
Psalms 119:131
My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
Matthew 5:6
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.
Luke 12:43
Happy is that servant who, when his lord comes, is doing so.
Ephesians 5:17
For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
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1 Kings 8:46
If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
Psalms 19:12
Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
Psalms 65:3
Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Romans 7:16
But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
Romans 7:21
So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.
Romans 7:25
I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
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2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:17
So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
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Romans 16:26
But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;
1 Corinthians 11:2
Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.
Hebrews 13:18
Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.
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