Psalms 119:36
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
In Context
35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:58that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good and the good of their children after them.
Ezekiel 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:36-37
35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. He had before prayed to God to enlighten his understanding, that he might know his duty, and not mistake concerning it; here he prays to God to bow his will, and quicken the active powers of his soul, that he might do his duty; for it is God that works in us both to will and to do, as well as to understand, what is good, Phil. ii. 13 . Both the good head and the good heart… Read the whole commentary →