Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
In Context
1Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD’s law.
3Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
1 Kings 2:3and keep the instruction of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself.
2 Chronicles 31:21In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
Psalms 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD!
Psalms 119:17Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
Psalms 119:33Teach me, LORD, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:2-4
1. ALEPH. 1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord . 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. The psalmist here shows that godly people are happy people; they are, and shall be, blessed indeed. Felicity is the thing we all pretend to aim at and pursue. He does not say here wherein it consists; it is enough for us to know what we must do and be that we may attain to it, and that we are here… Read the whole commentary →