Parallel Verses

Amplified


The arrogant have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts with all my heart.

New American Standard Bible

The arrogant have forged a lie against me;
With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.

King James Version

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Holman Bible

The arrogant have smeared me with lies,
but I obey Your precepts with all my heart.

International Standard Version

The arrogant have accused me falsely; but I will observe your precepts wholeheartedly.

A Conservative Version

The proud have forged a lie against me. With my whole heart I will keep thy precepts.

American Standard Version

The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.

Bible in Basic English

The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.

Darby Translation

The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with my whole heart.

Julia Smith Translation

The proud devised falsehood against me: I will watch thy charges with all the heart.

King James 2000

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] arrogant smear me with lies; I keep your precepts with [my] whole heart.

Modern King James verseion

The proud have forged a lie against me; I will keep Your Commandments with all my heart.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The proud imagine lies upon me, but I keep thy commandments with my whole heart.

NET Bible

Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

New Heart English Bible

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

The Emphasized Bible

Insolent men have plastered falsehood over me, I, with a whole heart, will observe thy precepts.

Webster

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

World English Bible

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Youngs Literal Translation

Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Teth

68
You are good and do good;
Teach me Your statutes.
69 
The arrogant have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts with all my heart.
70
Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal],
But I delight in Your law.


Cross References

Job 13:4


“But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully];
You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.

Psalm 35:11


Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

Psalm 109:2-3


For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 119:34


Give me understanding [a teachable heart and the ability to learn], that I may keep Your law;
And observe it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:51


The arrogant utterly ridicule me,
Yet I do not turn away from Your law.

Psalm 119:58


I sought Your favor with all my heart;
Be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.

Psalm 119:157


Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,
Yet I do not turn away from Your testimonies.

Jeremiah 43:2-3

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud and insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are not telling the truth! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go into Egypt to live there.’

Matthew 5:11-12

“Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me.

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more than the Lord].

Matthew 26:59-68

Now the chief priests and the whole Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) tried to get false witnesses to testify against Jesus, so that they might [have a reason to] put Him to death.

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man to be a public menace and one who instigates dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the [heretical] sect of the Nazarenes.

Acts 24:13

Nor can they present evidence to you to prove what they now bring against me.

James 1:8

being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

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