Psalms 119:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
  • 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
  • Ps 119:36 : 36 Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
  • Ps 119:44-45 : 44 So that I may keep your law for ever and ever; 45 So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
  • Ps 119:131 : 131 My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
  • Ps 119:159 : 159 See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.
  • Ps 119:173 : 173 Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Rom 7:22-24 : 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God, 23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh. 24 How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 119:8-12
    5 verses
    79%

    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 119:33-37
    5 verses
    79%

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

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

    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.

    37Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

  • Ps 119:167-168
    2 verses
    78%

    167My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

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

  • Ps 119:4
    78%

    4You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.

  • Ps 17:5
    77%

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

  • Ps 119:40
    77%

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

  • Ps 119:159
    76%

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

  • Ps 119:59-60
    2 verses
    76%

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

    60I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

  • Ps 119:80
    76%

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

  • Ps 119:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 119:133
    76%

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

  • Ps 119:101
    76%

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

  • Ps 119:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    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 119:116-117
    2 verses
    75%

    116Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.

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

  • Ps 119:18
    75%

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

  • Ps 119:6
    75%

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

  • Ps 119:45
    74%

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

  • Ps 119:54
    74%

    54Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

  • Ps 81:13
    74%

    13If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

  • Ps 119:20
    74%

    20My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

  • Ps 119:77
    74%

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

  • Ps 119:2
    74%

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

  • Ps 119:129
    73%

    129<PE> Your unchanging word is full of wonder; for this reason my soul keeps it.

  • Ps 119:112
    73%

    112My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

  • Ps 119:173-174
    2 verses
    73%

    173Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.

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

  • Ps 119:66-67
    2 verses
    73%

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

    67Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.

  • Ps 119:56
    73%

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

  • Ps 119:145
    73%

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

  • Ps 119:29
    73%

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

  • Ps 119:143
    73%

    143Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

  • Ps 119:131
    73%

    131My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

  • Ps 119:69
    73%

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

  • Deut 5:29
    73%

    29If 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!

  • Ps 119:135-136
    2 verses
    72%

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

    136Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.