Job 23:12

American Standard Version (1901)

I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [Yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
  • John 4:32 : 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.
  • John 6:66-69 : 66 Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away? 68 Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 69 And we have believed and know that thou art the Holy One of God.
  • John 8:31 : 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, [then] are ye truly my disciples;
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
  • Ps 19:9-9 : 9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, [and] righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold, yea, above fine gold.
  • Job 6:10 : 10 And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
  • Luke 12:42 : 42 And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

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    11My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.

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    22For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

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    16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

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    3Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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    21For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

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    13With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of thy mouth.

  • Ps 119:101-103
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    101I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe thy word.

    102I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For thou hast taught me.

    103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [Yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!

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    30(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

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    43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; For I have hoped in thine ordinances.

  • Ps 119:10-11
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    10With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.

    11Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

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    14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

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    13Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

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    12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

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    13But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

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    131I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments.

  • Jer 15:16
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    16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

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    27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

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    72The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver.

  • Ps 141:3-4
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    3Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.

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    11Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

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    127Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold, yea, above fine gold.

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    1[For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David]. I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

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    22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

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    10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.

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    56This I have had, Because I have kept thy precepts.

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    4Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

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    5Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;

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    18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

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    5The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.

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    13Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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    14For he hath not directed his words against me; Neither will I answer him with your speeches.

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    17Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

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    7Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

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    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

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    34My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

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    60I made haste, and delayed not, To observe thy commandments.

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