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Psalms 32:2–3

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Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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From verse 2

  1. John 1:47Rank 1 from verse 2
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    47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

  2. 2 Corinthians 5:19–21Rank 2 from verse 2
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    19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

    20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

    21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  3. Revelation 14:5Rank 3 from verse 2
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    5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

  4. 1 Peter 2:1–2Rank 4 from verse 2
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    1WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

    2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

  5. 2 Corinthians 1:12Rank 5 from verse 2
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    12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  6. Leviticus 17:4Rank 6 from verse 2
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    4And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

  7. Romans 5:13Rank 7 from verse 2
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    13(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

From verse 3

  1. Proverbs 28:13Rank 1 from verse 3
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    13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

  2. Psalms 38:3Rank 2 from verse 3
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    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

  3. Psalms 38:8Rank 3 from verse 3
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    8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  4. Psalms 22:1Rank 4 from verse 3
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    1MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

  5. Lamentations 3:8Rank 5 from verse 3
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    8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

  6. Hosea 7:14Rank 6 from verse 3
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    14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

  7. Job 30:30Rank 7 from verse 3
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    30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  8. Psalms 31:9–10Rank 8 from verse 3
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    9Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  9. Psalms 51:8Rank 9 from verse 3
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    8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

  10. Psalms 6:2Rank 10 from verse 3
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    2Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

  11. 2 Samuel 11:27–12Rank 11 from verse 3
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  12. Isaiah 51:20Rank 12 from verse 3
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    20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

  13. Isaiah 57:17Rank 13 from verse 3
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    17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

  14. Isaiah 59:11Rank 14 from verse 3
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    11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  15. Jeremiah 31:18–19Rank 15 from verse 3
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    18¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

    19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

  16. Lamentations 1:3Rank 16 from verse 3
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    3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

  17. Lamentations 3:4Rank 17 from verse 3
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    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  18. Genesis 3:8–19Rank 18 from verse 3
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    8And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

    9And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

    10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

    11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

    12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

    13And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

    14And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

    15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

    16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

    17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

    18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

    19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  19. Luke 15:15–16Rank 19 from verse 3
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    15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

    16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

  20. 2 Samuel 21:12–14Rank 20 from verse 3
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    12¶ And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

    13And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

    14And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

  21. Job 3:24Rank 21 from verse 3
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    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  22. Job 30:17Rank 22 from verse 3
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    17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  23. Psalms 102:3–5Rank 23 from verse 3
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

    4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  24. 1 Samuel 31:13Rank 24 from verse 3
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    13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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Psalms 32:2

COMBINED MEANING

blessed

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1. Favoured by God, endowed with good, or declared happy. 2. Spoke good of, praised, thanked, or bestowed a blessing upon.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

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imputeth

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Reckons, counts, credits, attributes, or charges something to a person’s account.

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iniquity

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Wickedness, unrighteousness, transgression, or sin; the guilt or burden of such wrongdoing.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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spirit

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Sense 1: An immaterial living or personal being distinct from a body. Sense 2: The inward life, disposition, mind, or courage of a person. Sense 3: The Holy Spirit, the divine Spirit of God.

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COMBINED MEANING

guile

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Deceit, treachery, fraud, or deceitful cunning used to mislead or entrap.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Psalms 32:3

COMBINED MEANING

silence

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Absence or cessation of sound or speech; quietness, stillness, restraint from speaking, or the condition of being made unable or unwilling to answer.

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COMBINED MEANING

waxed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of wax, meaning to grow, increase, or become.

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old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

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COMBINED MEANING

roaring

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of roar, meaning to make such a sound, especially in distress or fierceness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

long

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Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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32:1BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

32:2Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

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32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

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32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

32:5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

32:6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

32:7Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

32:8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

32:9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

32:10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

32:11Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

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