Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:

New American Standard Bible

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.

King James Version

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

Holman Bible

The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are reliable
and altogether righteous.

International Standard Version

The fear of the LORD is clean, standing forever. The judgments of the LORD are true; they are altogether righteous.

A Conservative Version

The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, [and] righteous altogether.

American Standard Version

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, and righteous altogether.

Amplified


The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true, they are righteous altogether.

Bible in Basic English

The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

Julia Smith Translation

The fear of Jehovah being pure, standing forever: the judgments of Jehovah, truth, they were altogether just

King James 2000

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The fear of Yahweh [is] pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh [are] true; they are righteous altogether,

Modern King James verseion

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Jehovah are true and righteous altogether,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The fear of the LORD is clean, and endureth forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

NET Bible

The commands to fear the Lord are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the Lord are trustworthy and absolutely just.

New Heart English Bible

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

The Emphasized Bible

The, reverence of Yahweh, is clean, Enduring evermore, - The, decisions of Yahweh, are faithful, They are righteous, altogether:

Webster

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

World English Bible

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Youngs Literal Translation

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

References

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

The Witness Of Creation And Scripture

8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether: 10 They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.


Cross References

Psalm 119:142

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.

Genesis 22:12

And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

Genesis 42:18

And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God.

Exodus 21:1

And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Deuteronomy 4:8

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

1 Samuel 12:24

Only, fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth, with all your heart; for see how great things he has done for you.

1 Kings 18:3-4

And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the steward of his house (now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly;

1 Kings 18:12

And it shall come to pass when I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me; and I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that were before me had been chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.

Psalm 10:5

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Psalm 34:11-14

Come, ye sons, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

Psalm 36:1

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 36:6

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

Psalm 72:1-2

{For Solomon.} O God, give the king thy judgments, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

Psalm 111:10-6

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do his precepts: his praise abideth for ever.

Psalm 115:13

He will bless them that fear Jehovah, both the small and the great.

Psalm 119:1

ALEPH. Blessed are the perfect in the way, who walk in the law of Jehovah.

Psalm 119:7

I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

Psalm 119:39

Turn away my reproach which I fear; for thy judgments are good.

Psalm 119:62

At midnight I rise up to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.

Psalm 119:75

I know, Jehovah, that thy Judgments are righteousness, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Psalm 119:137-138

TZADE. Righteous art thou, Jehovah, and upright are thy judgments.

Psalm 147:19

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

Isaiah 26:8

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to thy memorial.

Acts 10:22

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

Romans 2:2

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things.

Romans 3:10-18

according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;

Romans 11:22

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses bondman of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are thy works, Lord God Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, O King of nations.

Revelation 16:7

And I heard the altar saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

Revelation 19:2

for true and righteous are his judgments; for he has judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his bondmen at her hand.

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