KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 119:171–172
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Psalms 119:171
171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
171My lips shall vtter praise: when thou hast taught me thy Statutes.
Psalms 119:172
172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
172My tongue shall speake of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteousnesse.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:171
To speak, declare, or make known; also outermost or complete, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Approval, honour, or commendation expressed in words or song; also to commend, extol, or glorify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Instructed or caused to learn.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:172
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 171
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Open the full verse study23My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
24My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
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Open the full verse study12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
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Open the full verse study7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
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Open the full verse study15O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
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Open the full verse study17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
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Open the full verse study23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
From verse 172
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Open the full verse study29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
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Open the full verse study14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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Open the full verse study34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
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Open the full verse study30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
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Open the full verse study12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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Open the full verse study138Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
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Open the full verse study142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
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Open the full verse study6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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Open the full verse study13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
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Open the full verse study86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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Open the full verse study9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
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Open the full verse study46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
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Open the full verse study4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
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Open the full verse study7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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