KJV King James Version
For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
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Psalm 26:3
For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
WEB World English Bible
For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
ASV American Standard Version
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; And I have walked in thy truth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Thy kindness is before mine eyes, And I have walked habitually in Thy truth.
Surrounding context — Psalm 26
1 [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.
2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
3 For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
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1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.Isaiah 2:5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.Ephesians 4:32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.2 Corinthians 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.2 John 1:4I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.Psalm 86:11Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.2 Corinthians 5:14-15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:Psalm 101:2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.Psalm 25:5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.Luke 6:36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.Ephesians 4:20-25But ye have not so learned Christ;Matthew 5:44-48But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;3 John 1:3-4For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.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.John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.1 John 4:7-12Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.Psalm 119:142Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.
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