Psalms 119:167
I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
BSB
ASV
My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
KJV
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 20:175-76 (749)
Obtain the same thing for yourself and strive to advance toward it; for it is able to raise you from earth to heaven. You will not advance in it without preparation or [solely] by chance. First cleanse your soul of every passion and wipe it as clean of every evil as a newly cleansed mirror. Remove far from you every recollection of wrong and anger, which most of all prevents our daily prayers from reaching God. Also remove from your heart the offenses of everyone who has ever sinned against you.
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.
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Hebrews 10:16“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
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“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…
But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of…
And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
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Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
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But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
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I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
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Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
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For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
