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Psalms 25:21
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Psalms 25:21
21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
21Let integritie and vprightnesse preserue me: for I wait on thee.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 25:21
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Moral wholeness, uprightness, honesty, or sincerity in the matter described.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
uprightness
Honesty, integrity, and conformity to what is right and just.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To keep safe from harm, loss, decay, or destruction; to protect, maintain, or save.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
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Open the full verse study12And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
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Open the full verse study16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
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Open the full verse study7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
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Open the full verse study1JUDGE me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
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Open the full verse study11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
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Open the full verse study23The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed.
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Open the full verse study8The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
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Open the full verse study22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
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Open the full verse study11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
12The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
13As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
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Open the full verse study20The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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Open the full verse study10Then said Paul, I stand at Cæsar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.
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