Psalms 119:167
I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
In Context
166I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.
168I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
Cross References
Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:167
166 Lord , I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. Here is the whole duty of man; for we are taught, 1. To keep our eye upon God's favour as our end: " Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, not only temporal but eternal salvation. I have hoped for that as my happiness and laid up my treasure in it; I have hoped for it as thine, as a happiness of thy preparing, thy promising, and which consists in being with thee. Hope of this has raised me above the world, and borne me up under all my burdens in… Read the whole commentary →