Psalms 119:9

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Psalms 119:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.

8 I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

11 I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

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Psalms 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.

Psalms 34:11

Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Job 1:5

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

Job 13:26

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

Proverbs 1:4

To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Proverbs 4:10

Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.

Proverbs 4:11

I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.

Proverbs 4:12

When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

Proverbs 4:14

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

Proverbs 4:17

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 5:7

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:14

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:16

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Proverbs 5:18

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Proverbs 5:20

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:21

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

Proverbs 5:23

He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 6:22

When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

Proverbs 6:23

For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Proverbs 6:24

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Proverbs 6:26

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6:28

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:30

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Proverbs 6:31

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 6:33

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Proverbs 6:35

He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

Luke 15:13

After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Titus 2:4

In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

Titus 2:6

In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Psalms 119:11

I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

Psalms 119:97

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

Psalms 119:98

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

Psalms 119:99

I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

Psalms 119:100

I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.

Psalms 119:101

I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.

Psalms 119:102

I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.

Psalms 119:103

How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Psalms 119:104

I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

Psalms 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalms 1:1

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Psalms 1:2

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

Psalms 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Psalms 19:7

The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psalms 19:8

The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

Psalms 19:9

The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.

Psalms 19:10

They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

Psalms 19:11

By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.

Psalms 78:4

We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

Psalms 78:5

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

Psalms 78:6

that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children

Psalms 78:7

that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

Psalms 78:8

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Deuteronomy 6:6

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Deuteronomy 6:7

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 6:8

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 6:9

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 17:18

When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Joshua 1:7

Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.

John 15:3

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

2 Timothy 3:15

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:17

so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

James 1:21

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

James 1:22

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

James 1:23

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

James 1:24

and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

James 1:25

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.