Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
BSB
ASV
Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold, yea, above fine gold.
KJV
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Therefore I love thy commandments,.... Because he was the Lord's servant, as Aben Ezra; or rather because the wicked made void the law. His love was the more inflamed and increased towards it by the contempt it was had in by others; he preferred it above gold, yea, above fine gold; or gold of Phez, a place where the best gold was, as was thought: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it "the topaz"; and the Syriac and Arabic versions, "precious stones" or "gems"; see Psa 119:72.
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 19:10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
leads to
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Through
Proverbs 16:16How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
leads to
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Through
Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
leads to
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
