1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
60that all the peoples of the earth may know that LORD, he is God; there is none else.
62And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before LORD.
Cross References
Genesis 17:1And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.
1 Kings 3:3And Solomon loved LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father. Only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
1 Kings 15:3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him. And his heart was not perfect with LORD his God as the heart of David his father.
2 Kings 20:3Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Psalms 37:37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 8:55-62
Solomon Blesses and Exhorts the People. ( b. c. 1003.) 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord , he arose from before the altar of the Lord , from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. 55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 Blessed be the Lord , that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good… Read the whole commentary →