Psalms 119:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

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  • Matt 7:24 : 24 Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
  • Ps 119:69 : 69 The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.
  • Ps 119:73 : 73 <JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
  • Prov 2:5-6 : 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
  • Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
  • Ps 119:58 : 58 I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
  • Jas 2:8-9 : 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well: 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law. 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. 11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken. 12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
  • Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • Jas 4:11 : 11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
  • Deut 4:6 : 6 So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

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  • Ps 119:32-33
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    32I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.

    33<HE> O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.

  • Ps 119:35-36
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    35Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

    36Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

  • Ps 119:4-12
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    4You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.

    5If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

    6Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

    7I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.

    8I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.

    9<BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

    10I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

    11I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

    12Praise be to you, O Lord: give me knowledge of your rules.

  • Ps 119:26-27
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    26I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.

    27Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.

  • Ps 119:124-125
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    124Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

    125I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

  • Ps 119:143-145
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    143Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

    144The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.

    145<KOPH> I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

  • Ps 119:66
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    66Give me knowledge and good sense; for I have put my faith in your teachings.

  • Ps 119:15-18
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    15I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.

    16I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

    17<GIMEL> Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;

    18Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

  • Ps 119:168-169
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    78%

    168I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.

    169<TAU> Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.

  • Ps 119:73
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    73<JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.

  • Ps 119:99-101
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    99I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

    100I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

    101I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

  • Ps 119:69
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    69The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.

  • Ps 119:159
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    159See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

  • Ps 119:58
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    58I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.

  • Ps 119:112
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    112My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

  • Ps 119:44-45
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    44So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;

    45So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

  • Ps 119:77
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    77Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

  • Ps 119:56
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    56This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.

  • Ps 119:40
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    40See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

  • Ps 119:2
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    2Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

  • Ps 119:29
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    29Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.

  • Ps 119:47
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    47And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.

  • Ps 119:97
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    97<MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

  • Ps 119:130
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    130The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

  • Ps 119:174
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    174All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

  • Ps 119:108
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    108Take, O Lord, the free offerings of my mouth, and give me knowledge of your decisions.

  • Ps 119:117
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    117Let me not be moved, and I will be safe, and ever take delight in your rules.

  • Ps 119:149
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    149Let my voice come to you, in your mercy; O Lord, by your decisions give me life.

  • Ps 119:80
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    80Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.