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Psalms 16:1

Psalms 16:1 is verse 1 of Psalms chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.

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King James Version

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

World English Bible

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

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Psalms 16:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.

2 I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 56:1

Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.

Psalms 60:1

You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

Psalms 17:5

My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Psalms 17:8

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Psalms 31:23

Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.

Psalms 37:28

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

Psalms 97:10

Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalms 116:6

The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.

Proverbs 2:8

to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

Psalms 9:10

Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Psalms 22:8

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

Psalms 25:20

Guard my soul and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.

Psalms 84:12

O LORD of Hosts, how blessed is the man who trusts in You!

Psalms 125:1

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

Psalms 146:5

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Isaiah 26:3

You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

Isaiah 26:4

Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.

Jeremiah 17:7

But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

Jeremiah 17:8

He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

2 Timothy 1:12

For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.

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