Psalm 119:96

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Summary

Psalm 119:96

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

I have seen

But thy

General references

Deuteronomy 4:8

Bible References

I have seen

Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and handsome: and there was not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

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

Then said Saul unto his armorbearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

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.

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

Then said Joab, I cannot tarry thus with you. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

But thy

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

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

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, you shall not covet.

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

General references

And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?