Psalm 119:144

Tsade

¹⁴³ Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands. ¹⁴⁴ Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live. ¹⁴⁵ (Qof) I cried out with all my heart, "Answer me, O Lord! I will observe your statutes."

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Righteous Decrees

Psalm 19:9

The commands to fear the Lord are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the Lord are trustworthy and absolutely just.

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me proper discernment and understanding! For I consider your commands to be reliable.

Psalm 119:73

(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.

Psalm 119:138

The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.

Psalm 119:152

I learned long ago that you ordained your rules to last.

Psalm 119:169

(Tav) Listen to my cry for help, O Lord! Give me insight by your word!

Proverbs 10:21

The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

Isaiah 6:9-10

He said, "Go and tell these people: 'Listen continually, but don't understand! Look continually, but don't perceive!'

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord answered, "This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good."

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.

Hosea 4:6

You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.

Matthew 5:18

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said "Let light shine out of darkness," is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

1 Peter 1:23-25

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

1 John 5:20-21

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.