Psalms 119:45
And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
BSB
ASV
And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought thy precepts.
KJV
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
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And I will walk at liberty - Margin, “at large.” Luther renders it, “freely.” The Septuagint, “in a broad place.” The Hebrew word means “wide, broad, large, spacious.” The reference is to that which is free and open; that in which there are no limits, checks, restraints; where a man does what he pleases. The meaning here is, that he would feel he was free. He would not be restrained by evil passions and corrupt desires. He would be delivered from those things which seemed to fetter his goings. This does not here refer so much to external troubles or hindrances, to being oppressed and straitened by external foes, as to internal enemies - to the servitude of sin - to the slavery of appetite and passion. Compare the notes at Rom 7:9-14. See also Job 36:16; Psa 118:5. The margin well expresses the sense of the passage. For I seek thy precepts - I seek or endeavor to obey them. I seek them as the guide of my life. I ask nothing else to direct me.
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James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
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Psalms 119:133Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
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My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.
