KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 119:15–16
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Psalms 119:15
15I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
15I will meditate in thy precepts: and haue respect vnto thy wayes.
Psalms 119:16
16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
16I will delight my selfe in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:15
To consider deeply, dwell upon in thought, or purpose in the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Commands, rules, or authoritative instructions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Regard, consideration, relation, honour, or partial favour, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:16
To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.
Meaning drawn from: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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Open the full verse study2But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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Open the full verse study148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
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Open the full verse study97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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Open the full verse study48My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
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Open the full verse study131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study23Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.
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Open the full verse study1MY son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
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Open the full verse study47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
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Open the full verse study35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
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Open the full verse study22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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Open the full verse study16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
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Open the full verse study23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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Open the full verse study109My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
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Open the full verse study141I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
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Open the full verse study77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
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Open the full verse study83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
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Open the full verse study2But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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Open the full verse study14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
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Open the full verse study8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
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Open the full verse study11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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