Psalms 119:5
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
O that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes!
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- Psalms 51:10Rank 1 from verse 5
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21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
21Make you perfect in euery good worke to doe his will, ‖working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Iesus Christ, to whom be glorie for euer and euer. Amen.
- Jeremiah 31:33Rank 4 from verse 5
33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
33*But this shall be the couenant, that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and wil be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Psalms 119:36Rank 5 from verse 5
- Romans 7:22–24Rank 6 from verse 5
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
22For I delight in the Lawe of God, after the inward man.
23But I see another Lawe in my members, warring against the Lawe of my minde, and bringing me into captiuity to the Law of sinne, which is in my members.
24O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from ‖the body of this death?
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Psalms 119:5
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of direct. Sense 1: To guide, order, or point. Sense 2: To instruct or teach.
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To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.
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Laws, ordinances, rules, or enactments established by an authority.
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4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
4Thou hast commaunded vs to keepe thy precepts diligently.
5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
5O that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes!
Selected passage6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
6Then shall I not bee ashamed: when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements.