KJV King James Version
I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.
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Psalm 119:96
I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
WEB World English Bible
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
ASV American Standard Version
I have seen an end of all perfection; But thy commandment is exceeding broad.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command—exceedingly!
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
94 I [am] thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.
97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.
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Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.Matthew 5:18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.2 Samuel 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.Psalm 39:5-6Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.Ecclesiastes 12:8Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.1 Samuel 9:2And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than any of the people.1 Samuel 31:4-5Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.Ecclesiastes 1:2-3Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.1 Samuel 17:8And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.Matthew 22:37-40Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.1 Samuel 17:49-51And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.2 Samuel 18:17And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.Psalm 19:7-8The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.Hebrews 4:12-13For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.2 Samuel 18:14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he [was] yet alive in the midst of the oak.
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