Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

I have seen an end of all perfection. Thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

New American Standard Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

King James Version

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Holman Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection,
but Your command is without limit.

International Standard Version

I have observed that all things have their limit, but your commandment is very broad. Mem

American Standard Version

MEM. I have seen an end of all perfection; But thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Amplified


I have seen that all [human] perfection has its limits [no matter how grand and perfect and noble];
Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity].

Bible in Basic English

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.

Darby Translation

I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Julia Smith Translation

I saw the end to all perfection: thy command is exceeding broad.

King James 2000

I have seen a limit to all perfection: but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I have seen a limit to every perfection; your command [is] very broad.

Modern King James verseion

I have seen an end to all perfection; Your Commandment is exceedingly broad.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I see that all things come to an end, but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

NET Bible

I realize that everything has its limits, but your commands are beyond full comprehension.

New Heart English Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

The Emphasized Bible

To all perfection, have I seen an end, Broad is thy commandment, exceedingly.

Webster

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

World English Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM

Youngs Literal Translation

Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command -- exceedingly!

References

Easton

Law

Hastings

Context Readings

Lamed

95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection. Thy commandment is exceedingly broad. 97 O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.


Cross References

1 Samuel 9:2

And he had a son whose name was Saul, a young man and fine looking. And there was not among the sons of Israel a man better looking than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.

1 Samuel 17:8

And he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have ye come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 17:49-51

And David put his hand in his bag, and took from there a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.

1 Samuel 31:4-5

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his s

2 Samuel 14:25

Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

2 Samuel 16:23

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

2 Samuel 18:14

Then Joab said, I will not delay 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.

2 Samuel 18:17

And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise.

Psalm 39:5-6

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.

Matthew 5:18

For truly I say to you, until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle will, no, not pass away from the law, until all things come to pass.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 22:37-40

And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

Matthew 24:35

The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

Mark 12:29-34

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, thou Israel, Lord our God is one Lord,

Romans 7:7-12

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

Hebrews 4:12-13

For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear

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