Psalms 119:40
How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
BSB
ASV
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness. ו VAV.
KJV
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
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For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is…
As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
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2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts,.... After a greater degree of knowledge of them, and an opportunity of hearing them explained and enforced, and of yielding obedience to them; see Psa 119:7; quicken me in thy righteousness: in the way of righteousness, according to the word of righteousness, the Gospel, and with the righteousness of Christ revealed in it; and which is unto life, and quickens and comforts the heart, and from whence abundance of peace and joy flows.
