Verse 34

Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

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  • Matt 7:24 : 24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  • Ps 119:69 : 69 The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:73 : 73 JOD. Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
  • Prov 2:5-6 : 5 Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And to man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'
  • Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do his commandments; his praise endures forever.
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments.
  • Ps 119:58 : 58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; be merciful to me according to Your word.
  • Jas 1:25 : 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
  • Jas 2:8-9 : 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, yet if you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
  • Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who is wise and endowed with knowledge among you? Let him show by good conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • Jas 4:11 : 11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If anyone will do his will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.
  • Deut 4:6 : 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.