KJV King James Version
For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 31:3
For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
WEB World English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
ASV American Standard Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name’s sake lead me and guide me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name’s sake lead me and tend me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 31
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
3 For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.
5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
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Psalm 143:10-11Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.Isaiah 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.John 16:13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.Psalm 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.Nehemiah 9:12Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.Jeremiah 14:7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.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.Psalm 23:2-3He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.Psalm 25:11For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is] great.Psalm 43:3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.Psalm 139:24And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.Psalm 25:9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.Nehemiah 9:19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.Ephesians 1:12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.Joshua 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?Ezekiel 36:21-22But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.Psalm 18:2The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
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