Parallel Verses

Amplified


Blessed and favored by God are those who keep His testimonies,
And who [consistently] seek Him and long for Him with all their heart.

New American Standard Bible

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies,
Who seek Him with all their heart.

King James Version

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Holman Bible

Happy are those who keep His decrees
and seek Him with all their heart.

International Standard Version

How blessed are those who observe his decrees, who seek him with all of their heart,

A Conservative Version

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart.

American Standard Version

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.

Bible in Basic English

Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

Darby Translation

Blessed are they that observe his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart;

Julia Smith Translation

Happy they watching his testamonies; they shall seek him with all the

King James 2000

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blessed [are] those who keep his testimonies; they seek him with a whole heart.

Modern King James verseion

Blessed are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek Him with all the heart.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart;

NET Bible

How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,

New Heart English Bible

Blessed are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart.

The Emphasized Bible

How happy they who observe his testimonies, with a whole heart, they seek him.

Webster

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

World English Bible

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Youngs Literal Translation

O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Aleph

1 How blessed and favored by God are those whose way is blameless [those with personal integrity, the upright, the guileless],
Who walk in the law [and who are guided by the precepts and revealed will] of the Lord.
2 
Blessed and favored by God are those who keep His testimonies,
And who [consistently] seek Him and long for Him with all their heart.
3
They do no unrighteousness;
They walk in His ways.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

Psalm 25:10


All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and goodness and truth and faithfulness
To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

Psalm 119:10


With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You];
Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience].

Psalm 119:22


Take reproach and contempt away from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being].

Deuteronomy 6:17

You shall diligently keep [foremost in your thoughts and actively do] the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.

1 Kings 2:3

Keep the charge of the Lord your God, [that is, fulfill your obligation to] walk in His ways, keep His statutes, His commandments, His precepts, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may succeed in everything that you do and wherever you turn,

2 Chronicles 31:21

Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in keeping with the law and the commandment, seeking and inquiring of his God [and longing for Him], he did with all his heart and prospered.

Psalm 105:45


So that they might observe His precepts
And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Psalm 119:146


I cried to You; save me
And I will keep Your testimonies.

Proverbs 23:26


My son, give me your heart
And let your eyes delight in my ways,

Jeremiah 29:13

Then [with a deep longing] you will seek Me and require Me [as a vital necessity] and [you will] find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances and do them.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, “If anyone [really] loves Me, he will keep My word (teaching); and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling place with him.

1 John 3:20

whenever our heart convicts us [in guilt]; for God is greater than our heart and He knows all things [nothing is hidden from Him because we are in His hands].

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