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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 18:22

I keep your laws in mind and never look away from your teachings.

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws 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 You are good to me, Lord , because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent. 21 I do what you want and never turn to do evil. 22 I keep your laws in mind and never look away from your teachings. 23 I obey you completely and guard against sin. 24 You have been good to me because I do right; you have rewarded me for being innocent by your standards. 25 You are always loyal to your loyal people, and you are faithful to the faithful. 26 With all who are sincere, you are sincere, but you treat the unfaithful as their deeds deserve. 27 You rescue the humble, but you put down all who are proud. 28 You, the Lord God, keep my lamp burning and turn darkness to light.

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
One hot summer afternoon Abraham was sitting by the entrance to his tent near the sacred trees of Mamre, when the Lord appeared to him.
Genesis 18:2
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. He quickly ran to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground,
Genesis 18:16
When the three men got ready to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked part of the way with them.
Genesis 19:1
That evening the two angels arrived in Sodom, while Lot was sitting near the city gate. When Lot saw them, he got up, bowed down low,
Psalms 106:23
You were angry and started to destroy them, but Moses, your chosen leader, begged you not to do it.
Jeremiah 15:1
The Lord said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were here, praying with you, I wouldn't change my mind. So send the people of Judah away.
Jeremiah 18:20
I tried to help them, but they are paying me back by digging a pit to trap me. I even begged you not to punish them.
Ezekiel 22:30
I looked for someone to defend the city and to protect it from my anger, as well as to stop me from destroying it. But I found no one.
Acts 7:55
But Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit. He looked toward heaven, where he saw our glorious God and Jesus standing at his right side.
1 Timothy 2:1
First of all, I ask you to pray for everyone. Ask God to help and bless them all, and tell God how thankful you are for each of them.

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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