Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 awaited me to destroy me; but I attend unto thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad. 97 MEM. Oh 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, choice and comely; and there was not among the children of Israel a comelier person than he; from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

1 Samuel 17:8

And he stood and cried to the ranks of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I the Philistine, and ye servants of Saul? choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 17:49-51

And David put his hand into the bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead; and he fell on his face to the earth.

1 Samuel 31:4-5

Then said Saul to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armour-bearer would not; for he was much afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

2 Samuel 14:25

But 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 counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired of the word 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 ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

2 Samuel 18:14

Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into Absalom's body, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth.

2 Samuel 18:17

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

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 39:5-6

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3

Vanity of vanities, saith 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 labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.

Matthew 5:18

For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass.

Matthew 5:28

But I say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 22:37-40

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

Matthew 24:35

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.

Mark 12:29-34

And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;

Romans 7:7-12

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Hebrews 4:12-13

For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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