Psalms 119:4
You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
In Context
3They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
5O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
Cross References
Exodus 7:6And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.
Deuteronomy 4:9Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which yours eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them your sons, and your sons' sons;
Deuteronomy 6:3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that all of you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:13And it shall come to pass, if all of you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 12:32Whatsoever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy 30:16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.
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 →