Psalms 119:42
Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.
BSB
ASV
So shall I have an answer for him that reproacheth me; For I trust in thy word.
KJV
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
"And so shall I make answer," he says, "to them that reproach me with the word" [Psalm 119:42]. It is doubtful whether it be "reproach me with a word;" or, "I will answer with a word;" but either signifies Christ. They to whom Christ crucified is a stumbling-block or foolishness, [1 Corinthians 1:23] reproach us with Him; ignorant that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt in us;" [John 1:14] the Word which "was in the beginning," and "was with God, and was God." [John 1:1] But although they may not reproach us with the Word which is unknown unto them, because His Divinity is not known unto those by whom His weakness on the Cross is despised; let us nevertheless make answer of the Word, and let us not be terrified or confounded by their reproaches. For "if they had known" the Word, "they would never have crucified the Lord of glory." [1 Corinthians 2:8] ...Therefore, when the Psalmist had said, "I will make answer unto them that reproach me with the word:" he at once adds, "For my trust is in Your words," which means exactly, in Your promises.
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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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Acts 27:25So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.
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Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord’s word to her will be fulfilled.”
For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have…
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
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Proverbs 27:11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
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The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
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Psalms 119:74May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
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Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.
My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
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Matthew 27:63“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
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“The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to…
