Psalms 34:9
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
BSB
ASV
Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints; For there is no want to them that fear him.
KJV
O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 16:6 (PS 34) (379)
Unless fear disciplines our life, it is impossible successfully to attain holiness in body.… In him who fears there is not want, that is, he is failing with regard to no virtue who is prevented by fear from every absurd act, since he falls short of nothing good that belongs to human nature.
O fear the Lord, ye his saints. Pay to him humble childlike reverence, walk in his laws, have respect to his will, tremble to offend him, hasten to serve him. Fear not the wrath of men, neither be tempted to sin through the virulence of their threats; fear God and fear nothing else. For there is no want to them that fear him. Jehovah will not allow his faithful servants to starve. He may not give luxuries, but the promise binds him to supply necessaries, and he will not run back from his word.
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
Psalms 23:1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
leads to
And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
Through
Philippians 4:19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
leads to
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish…