KJV King James Version
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
WEB World English Bible
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
ASV American Standard Version
As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with beholding thy form.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I—in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!
Surrounding context — Psalm 17
12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
14 From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.Psalm 16:11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.Psalm 11:7For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.Matthew 5:6Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.Psalm 4:6-7[There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.1 John 3:2-3Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.Philippians 3:21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.Isaiah 26:19Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.Psalm 65:4Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.Revelation 21:23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.Joshua 24:15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.Job 19:26-27And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:Numbers 12:8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?Psalm 36:8-9They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.Psalm 119:111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.Revelation 21:3-4And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.Matthew 27:52-53And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,Psalm 5:7But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
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