Psalms 119:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
  • Num 15:39 : 39 So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:
  • Ps 119:25 : 25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
  • Prov 4:25 : 25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
  • Josh 7:21 : 21 When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 119:33-36
    4 verses
    80%

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

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

    35 Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

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

  • Ps 119:38-40
    3 verses
    79%

    38 Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.

    39 Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.

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

  • Ps 119:158-159
    2 verses
    78%

    158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.

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

  • Ps 119:18
    78%

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

  • Ps 119:148-149
    2 verses
    77%

    148 In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

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

  • Ps 119:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

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

    28 My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word

    29 Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.

  • Prov 4:25
    77%

    25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

  • Ps 119:5
    75%

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

  • Ps 119:25
    75%

    25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

  • Ps 119:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8 I 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.

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

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

  • Ps 119:107
    74%

    107 I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.

  • Ps 119:88
    74%

    88 Give me life in your mercy; so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth.

  • Ps 119:156
    74%

    156 Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.

  • Ps 119:123
    74%

    123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

  • Ps 119:133
    73%

    133 Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

  • Ps 119:154
    73%

    154 Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.

  • Ps 119:101
    73%

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

  • Ps 119:79
    73%

    79 Let your worshippers be turned to me, and those who have knowledge of your words.

  • Ps 143:11
    73%

    11 Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.

  • Ps 101:3
    73%

    3 I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

  • Ps 13:3
    73%

    3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

  • Ps 119:22
    73%

    22 Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

  • Job 31:1
    72%

    1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

  • Ps 17:5
    72%

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Ps 119:135
    72%

    135 Let your servant see the shining of your face; give me knowledge of your rules.

  • Job 31:7
    72%

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • Ps 119:77
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:59
    72%

    59 I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

  • Ps 141:8
    72%

    8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

  • Ps 119:117
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:21
    72%

    21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

  • Job 15:12
    72%

    12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

  • Prov 30:8
    72%

    8 Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

  • 1 Sam 12:21
    72%

    21 And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

  • Ps 119:15
    72%

    15 I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.

  • Ps 119:93
    72%

    93 I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.

  • Ps 17:2
    71%

    2 Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.