Psalms 19:8
Hebrew Text— Psalms 19:8Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.