KJV King James Version
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
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Psalm 119:15
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
WEB World English Bible
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
ASV American Standard Version
I will meditate on thy precepts, And have respect unto thy ways.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
12 Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17 GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
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Psalm 1:2But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.James 1:25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.Psalm 119:148Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word.Psalm 119:97MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.Psalm 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.Psalm 119:48My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.Psalm 119:131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.Psalm 119:117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.Psalm 119:6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.Psalm 119:23Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
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