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Psalms 66:18

Psalms 66:18 is verse 18 of Psalms chapter 66, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

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King James Version

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

World English Bible

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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Psalms 66:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

17 I cried out to Him with my mouth and praised Him with my tongue.

18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

19 But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!

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Cross-references

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

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 27:9

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Proverbs 15:29

The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

Proverbs 28:9

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.

James 4:3

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

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