Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
BSB
ASV
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
KJV
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
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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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1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of…
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Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall…
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Psalms 119:102I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.
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So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Proverbs 8:32Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
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Acts 24:16In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
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Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
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 yet subsequently some human merit cooperates there: 1 Cor. 15: "The grace of God in me was not in vain." And therefore he adds, "The Lord will reward me," etc. Where he does three things. First he proposes the merit. Second, in what it …
Here the assertion of purity is repeated, both in a positive and a negative form. There is "I have" and "I have not, " both of which must be blended in a truly sanctified life; constraining and restraining grace must each take its share. The words of this verse refer to the saint as a traveler carefully keeping to "the ways of the Lord, " and "not wickedly, "that is, designedly, wilfully, persistently, defiantly forsaking the ordained pathway in which God favours the pilgrim with his presence.