Psalm 119:144 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴⁴ Your decrees are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴⁴ The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: Give me understanding, and I shall live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴⁴ Your righteous testimonies are everlasting and Your decrees are binding to eternity; give me understanding and I shall live [give me discernment and comprehension and I shall not die].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴⁴ Thy testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me understanding, and I shall live. ק QOPH.

Common English Bible

¹⁴⁴ Your laws are righteous forever. Help me understand so I can live!

Psalm 119:144 Cross References

Psalm 119:138

You have appointed your decrees in righteousness and in all faithfulness.

Psalm 119:151

Yet you are near, O Lord, and all your commandments are true.

Psalm 119:152

Long ago I learned from your decrees that you have established them forever.

Psalm 119:169

Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me understanding according to your word.

Psalm 119:17

Deal bountifully with your servant, so that I may live and observe your word.

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Psalm 119:73

Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Psalm 19:9

the fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments and live.

Proverbs 7:2

keep my commandments and live; keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked shall continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.

Matthew 5:18

For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.