Psalms 122:8
For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
BSB
ASV
For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
KJV
For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
For my brethren and companions' sakes,.... Who were regenerated by the spirit of God; adopted into his family, and children of the same father; stood in the same relation to Christ the firstborn, and members of the same church; and so brethren: partners in the same blessings and promises of the covenant; partakers of the same grace; joined together in religious worship; shared in the same joys and griefs; travellers together to the same heavenly country, and entitled to the same glory and happiness.
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. It is to the advantage of all Israel that there should be peace in Jerusalem. It is for the good of every Christian, yea, of every man, that there should be peace and prosperity in the church. Here our humanity and our common philanthropy assist our religious prayer. By a flourishing church our children, our neighbours, our fellow countrymen are likely to be blest.
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.
Through
Psalms 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
leads to
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me.
At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD…
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.
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Psalms 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
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For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
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Psalms 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
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You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD,…