Psalms 26:3
For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
BSB
ASV
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; And I have walked in thy truth.
KJV
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
BRIEF COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 25[26] (420)
He seeks justice so that he may tell of mercy.
(2.) He governed himself by the word of God as his rule: " I have walked in thy truth, that is, according to thy law, for thy law is truth." Note, Those only may expect the benefit of God's loving-kindness that live up to his truths, and his laws that are grounded upon them.
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes. An object of memory and a ground of hope. A sense of mercy received sets a fair prospect before the faithful mind in its gloomiest condition, for it yields visions of mercies yet to come, visions not visionary but real. Dwell, dear reader, upon that celestial word lovingkindness. It has a heavenly savour. Is it not an unmatchable word, unexcelled, unrivalled?
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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Ephesians 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
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Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,
Through
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
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He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?