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Psalms 19:5
Psalms 19:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,
King James Version
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
World English Bible
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
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Psalms 19:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,
4 their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,
6 it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
7 The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 62:5For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
John 3:29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
Ecclesiastes 1:5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.
1 Corinthians 9:26Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
Philippians 3:13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Philippians 3:14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Hebrews 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.