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Psalms 18:22

For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Recompense/restitution;   Rendering;   Uprightness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Steadfastness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Justice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nomism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide meand have not disregarded his statutes.
Hebrew Names Version
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
King James Version
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
English Standard Version
For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
New Century Version
I remember all his laws and have not broken his rules.
New English Translation
For I am aware of all his regulations, and I do not reject his rules.
Amplified Bible
For all His ordinances were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
New American Standard Bible
For all His judgments were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
World English Bible
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For all his Lawes were before mee, and I did not cast away his commaundements from mee.
Legacy Standard Bible
For all His judgments were before me,And I did not put away His statutes from me.
Berean Standard Bible
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.
Contemporary English Version
I keep your laws in mind and never look away from your teachings.
Complete Jewish Bible
"For I have kept the ways of Adonai , I have not done evil by leaving my God;
Darby Translation
For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me;
Easy-to-Read Version
I always remembered his laws. I never rejected his rules.
George Lamsa Translation
For all his judgments were before me, and his laws I did not put away from me.
Good News Translation
I have observed all his laws; I have not disobeyed his commands.
Lexham English Bible
because all his ordinances are before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me,
Literal Translation
For all His judgments were before me, and I did not turn away His statutes from me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I haue an eye vnto all his lawes, & cast not out his commaundemetes fro me.
American Standard Version
For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
King James Version (1611)
For all his iudgements were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.
English Revised Version
For all his judgments were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y kepte the weies of the Lord; and Y dide not vnfeithfuli fro my God.
Update Bible Version
For all his ordinances were before me, And I do not put away his statutes from me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
New King James Version
For all His judgments were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
New Living Translation
I have followed all his regulations; I have never abandoned his decrees.
New Life Bible
All His Laws are in front of me. I have not set His Laws aside.
New Revised Standard
For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, all his regulations, were before me, and, his statutes, did I not put from me:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-23) For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.
Revised Standard Version
For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Young's Literal Translation
For all His judgments [are] before me, And His statutes I turn not from me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For all His ordinances were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.

Contextual Overview

20 The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him. 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God. 22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me. 23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin. 24 Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes. 25 On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright; 26 He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge. 27 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low. 28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For all: Psalms 119:13, Psalms 119:128, John 5:14

I did: Psalms 119:112, Psalms 119:117

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 17:6 - in the ways

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
Genesis 18:2
And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;
Genesis 18:16
And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.
Psalms 106:23
And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
Acts 7:55
But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.
1 Timothy 2:1
My desire is, first of all, that you will make requests and prayers and give praise for all men;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For all his judgments [were] before me,.... That is, the precepts of the law of God, which David had a respect unto, loved, took delight and pleasure in, and so had them all in his sight, and made them the rule of his actions; and the law of God is delighted in by regenerate persons, after the inward man; and though it is abolished as a covenant of works, it is a rule of walk and conversation to the saints; and as such they keep it in view, and regard it impartially, not only some of its precepts, but all. This in the highest and fullest sense was done by Christ, who was made under the law, in whose heart it was, and who came to fulfil it, and has completely fulfilled it;

and I did not put away his statutes from me; in 2 Samuel 22:23; it is read, "and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them"; the sense is the same; this may have respect to the ceremonial law, and the ordinances of it, which David abode by, very strictly observed, renewed, and put in order; and which Christ, his antitype, never departed from, but conformed unto throughout the whole of his life; witness his circumcision, keeping of the passover, attendance on the synagogue and temple worship; nor did he put them away until they had their full accomplishment in him; when there was a disannulling of them because of their weakness and unprofitableness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For all his judgments - All his statutes, ordinances, laws. The word judgment is commonly used in this sense in the Scriptures, as referring to that which God has judged or determined to be right.

Were before me - That is, I acted in view of them, or as having them to guide me. They were constantly before my eyes, and I regulated my conduct in accordance with their requirements.

And I did not put away his statutes from me - I did not reject them as the guide of my conduct.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:22. All his judgments were before me — I kept his law before my eyes, that I might see my duty and know how to walk and please God.


 
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