Verse 3

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:16 : 16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Jas 3:5-9 : 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. 7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
  • Ps 51:15 : 15 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
  • Ps 30:12 : 12 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
  • Ps 21:6 : 6 For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
  • Ps 66:17 : 17 I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.