I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
I have seen an end of all perfection; But thy commandment is exceeding broad. מ MEM.
Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command--exceedingly!
I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices4
When the heart is enlarged through love, then man easily keeps the commandments of God. I have seen an end of all perfection; thy commandment is exceedingly broad. He says that the way of God's commandments is broad, yet to some it seems to be …
Bonaventure· Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 2, 1257patristic
I have seen an end of all perfection,.... An end, limit, or border, to every country, as the Syriac version; as there is to every kingdom and state, and to the whole world; but none to the commandment of God: or an end of all created beings, the finished works of God, the most perfect in their kind.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 96. I have seen an end of all perfection. He had seen its limit, for it went but a little way; he had seen its evaporation under the trials of life, its detection under the searching glance of truth, its exposure by the confession of the penitent. There is no perfection beneath the moon. Perfect men, in the absolute sense of the word, live only in a perfect world. Some men see no end to their own perfection, but this is because they are perfectly blind.
Commandment - Thy word; one part of it being put for the whole. Broad - Or, large, both for extent, and for continuance: it is useful to all persons: it is of everlasting truth and efficacy; it will never deceive those who trust to it, as all worldly things will, but will make men happy both here and forever.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
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Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
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The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
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but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
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God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
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Matthew 5:18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.
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The verses this one reaches12
The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
17 more linked verses are grouped by book below ↓
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Deuteronomy1
1 Samuel3
2 Samuel5
Ecclesiastes2
Acts1
Romans2
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