Psalms 119:112
I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
BSB
ASV
I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes For ever, even unto the end. ס SAMEKH.
KJV
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
I have inclined mine heart - The Hebrew word means properly “to stretch out”; “to extend” - as the hand. Exo 8:6, Exo 8:17. Then it means to incline, to bow, to depress. Here the idea is, that he had “given” that “direction” to the inclinations of his heart; he had resolved or purposed. He refers to an act of choice on his part, meaning that he had preferred this course, or that he had made this a solemn intention. Though every right inclination of the human heart is to be traced to the divine agency, yet it is also true that man is active in religion - or that his own mind resolves, chooses, and prefers - and that true religion is the actual choice or preference of all who serve God aright. See the notes at Psa 119:59. To perform thy statutes alway - Margin, as in Hebrew, “to do.” He meant to do the will of God. He intended to do this constantly; even forever. No man can be a truly pious man who has any disposition, or any purpose, “ever” to turn away from the service of God. Even unto the end - See Psa 119:33. To the end of life; to the end of all things.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 141:4Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
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Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
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Psalms 119:33Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
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I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all…
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Psalms 119:36Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
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And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
