Psalms 18:1
I love You, O LORD, my strength.
BSB
ASV
I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
KJV
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. These words are not in twenty second chapter of Second Samuel: the psalm there begins with Psa 18:
As the Scripture does not use the verb rhm, racham, for to love, except in the conjugation pihel, and as it is here put in the conjugation kal, some of the Jewish expositors explain it as here meaning to seek mercy; as if David had said, Lord, since I have so often experienced thee to be a merciful God, I will trust to and repose in thy mercies for ever.
"I will love thee, O Lord." With strong, hearty affection will I cling to thee; as a child to its parent, or a spouse to her husband. The word is intensely forcible, the love is of the deepest kind. "I will love heartily, with my inmost bowels." Here is a fixed resolution to abide in the nearest and most intimate union with the Most High. Our triune God deserves the warmest love of all our hearts. Father, Son and Spirit have each a claim upon our love.
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
Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
leads to
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand…
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…
being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.
Through
1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
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And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.