Psalm 16:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 116:13

I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord;

Psalm 119:57

The Lord is my portion; I promise to keep your words.

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous might not stretch out their hands to do wrong.

Psalm 132:11

The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

Psalm 142:5

I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Psalm 2:6

“I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 89:4

‘I will establish your descendants forever and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah

Psalm 9:4

For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors, yet he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Lamentations 3:24

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

Acts 2:32

“This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.

Acts 5:31

God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior that he might give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

1 Corinthians 15:25

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Deuteronomy 18:2

but they shall have no inheritance among the other members of the community; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.

Deuteronomy 32:9

the Lord’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

Joshua 22:25

For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you Reubenites and Gadites; you have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord.

Joshua 22:27

but to be a witness between us and you and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and offerings of well-being, so that your children may never say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.” ’