Psalms 25:21
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
BSB
ASV
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
KJV
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Another reason is that your friends lean upon me. Sometimes God frees someone not because of his own merits, but lest friends of God perish together with him upon whom they lean. When he says, "The innocent and upright have clung to me," the innocent …
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me. What better practical safeguards can a man require? If we do not prosper with these as our guides, it is better for us to suffer adversity. Even the ungodly world admits that "honesty is the best policy. " The heir of heaven makes assurance doubly sure, for apart from the rectitude of his public life, he enlists the guardian care of heaven in secret prayer: for I wait on thee.
In conscious innocence of the faults charged by his enemies, he confidently commits his cause to God. Some refer-- integrity, &c.--to God, meaning His covenant faithfulness. This sense, though good, is an unusual application of the terms.
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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Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
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Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
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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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The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to…
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
