Psalms 119:26
I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
BSB
ASV
I declared my ways, and thou answeredst me: Teach me thy statutes.
KJV
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
For what he was by himself, he confesseth in the following words: "I have acknowledged my ways, and Thou heardest me" (ver. 26). Some copies indeed read, "Thy ways:" but more, and the best Greek, read "my ways," that is, evil ways. For he seemeth to me to say this; I have confessed my sins, and Thou hast heard me; that is, so that Thou wouldest remit them. "O teach me Thy statutes." I have acknowledged my ways: Thou hast blotted them out: teach me Thine. So teach me, that I may act; not merely that I may know how I ought to act. For as it is said of the Lord, that He knew not sin, and it is understood, that He did no sin; so also he ought truly to be said to know righteousness, who doeth it. This is the prayer of one who is improving. ...
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 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
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Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Through
Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
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Psalms 86:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
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Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
They will be My people, and I will be their God.
