Verse 3

Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:16 : 16 Answer me, O LORD, for your loyal love is good! Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • Jas 3:5-9 : 5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze. 6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind. 8 But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
  • Ps 51:15 : 15 O Lord, give me the words! Then my mouth will praise you.
  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.
  • Ps 30:12 : 12 So now my heart will sing to you and not be silent; O LORD my God, I will always give thanks to you.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many say,“Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, LORD!
  • Ps 21:6 : 6 For you grant him lasting blessings; you give him great joy by allowing him into your presence.
  • Ps 66:17 : 17 I cried out to him for help and praised him with my tongue.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Return to the LORD and repent! Say to him:“Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.