Verse 69

The insolent smear me with lies, but I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4 : 4 Yet you, however, are smearers of falsehood; all of you are worthless physicians.
  • Ps 35:11 : 11 False witnesses rise up; they question me about things I do not know.
  • Ps 109:2-3 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3 They surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.
  • Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law and observe it with all my heart.
  • Ps 119:51 : 51 The arrogant mock me incessantly, but I do not turn away from Your law.
  • Ps 119:58 : 58 I seek Your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your word.
  • Ps 119:157 : 157 Though many are my persecutors and my adversaries, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
  • Jer 43:2-3 : 2 Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, 'You are lying! The LORD our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to settle there.’ 3 Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Chaldeans, to be killed or deported to Babylon.
  • Matt 5:11-12 : 11 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • Matt 26:59-68 : 59 The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus so that they might put Him to death. 60 But they could not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. Finally, two witnesses came forward. 61 They declared, "This man said, 'I can destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'" 62 Then the high priest stood up and said to Him, "Are You not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against You?" 63 But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, "I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God." 64 Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven." 65 Then the high priest tore his garments and said, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. 66 What is your judgment?" They answered, "He is guilty and deserves death." 67 Then they spat in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him, 68 mocking and saying, "Prophesy to us, Christ! Who hit you?"
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
  • Acts 24:13 : 13 Nor can they prove to you the charges they are now bringing against me.
  • Jas 1:8 : 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all their ways.