Psalms 128:1
Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
BSB
ASV
Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah, That walketh in his ways.
KJV
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.
Blessed are all who fear the Lord. Just as no one can say 'The Lord is my portion' except the one who has no other portion in the world, so the one who fears anything else outside the Lord does not fear the Lord. Indeed, the Savior himself says: 'Do not fear those who can kill the body, but fear him who can kill both body and soul in hell.' You see, then, that whoever does not fear the Lord fears some other thing outside the Lord. The one who fears the Lord, what signs does he have?
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord. The last Psalm ended with a blessing, —for the word there translated "happy" is the same as that which is here rendered "blessed": thus the two songs are joined by a catch word. There is also in them a close community of subject. The fear of God is the corner stone of all blessedness. We must reverence the ever blessed God before we can be blessed ourselves.
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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Psalms 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
But 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.
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
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Luke 1:50His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.
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But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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Psalms 103:13As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
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What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?