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Psalms 19:8
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Psalms 19:8
8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
8The Statutes of the LORD are right, reioycing the heart: the Commandement of the LORD is pure, inlightning the eyes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 19:8
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
commandment
An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed, as identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Free from mixture, contamination, guilt, or moral defilement; genuine, clean, holy, or innocent according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
enlightening
Giving light, knowledge, instruction, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study6The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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Open the full verse study105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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Open the full verse study16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.
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Open the full verse study5Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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Open the full verse study6For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
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Open the full verse study128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
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Open the full verse study92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
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Open the full verse study80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
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Open the full verse study23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
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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 study98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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Open the full verse study16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
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Open the full verse study20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Open the full verse study7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
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Open the full verse study19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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Open the full verse study45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
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Open the full verse study12Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
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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 study143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
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Open the full verse study171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
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Open the full verse study3Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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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 study16When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
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Open the full verse study27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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Open the full verse study5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Open the full verse study121I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
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Open the full verse study11Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:
12And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
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Open the full verse study11And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
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Open the full verse study14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
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Open the full verse study10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
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Open the full verse study21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
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Open the full verse study5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
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Open the full verse study12And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
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Open the full verse study13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
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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 study54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
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Open the full verse study17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
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Open the full verse study12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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