KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 40:10–11
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Psalms 40:10
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.
10I haue not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart, I haue declared thy faithfulnesse and thy saluation: I haue not concealed thy louing kindnesse, and thy truth, from the great congregation.
Psalms 40:11
11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
11With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy louing kindnesse, and thy trueth continually preserue me.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 40:10
Concealed, covered, kept secret, or placed out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · 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)
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)
To make known, announce, or show clearly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
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faithfulness
Steadfastness, fidelity, trustworthiness, or constancy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Kept close or secret; hid; withdrawn from sight; covered.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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lovingkindness
Merciful kindness, tender favor, and steadfast goodness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
congregation
An assembled body or community of people, especially the gathered people of Israel or worshippers before God.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 40:11
To hold back, restrain, keep from giving, or refuse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Soft or delicate; young, weak, or not hardy; sensitive or responsive; compassionate or merciful, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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lovingkindness
Merciful kindness, tender favor, and steadfast goodness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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continually
Very often; in repeated succession; from time to time; without pause or cessation; unceasingly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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)
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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Open the full verse study20And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
21Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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Open the full verse study9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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Open the full verse study8For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
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Open the full verse study30For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
31Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
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Open the full verse study32And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
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Open the full verse study26Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
27For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
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Open the full verse study7And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
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Open the full verse study17Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
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Open the full verse study6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
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Open the full verse study6And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
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Open the full verse study20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
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Open the full verse study9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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Open the full verse study10All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
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Open the full verse study6This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
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Open the full verse study1I WILL sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
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Open the full verse study3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
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Open the full verse study8Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
9And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
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Open the full verse study22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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Open the full verse study17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
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Open the full verse study17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
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Open the full verse study3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
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Open the full verse study3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
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Open the full verse study28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
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Open the full verse study7He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
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Open the full verse study16Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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Open the full verse study13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
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Open the full verse study10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
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Open the full verse study7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
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