Psalms 119:4
You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.
BSB
ASV
Thou hast commanded us thy precepts, That we should observe them diligently.
KJV
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
leads to
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
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Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
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Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand…
No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.
