English Standard Version
Psalms 26:3
3For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.
Psalms 26:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
- New International Version (NIV)for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For I am always aware of your unfailing love, and I have lived according to your truth.
Context of Psalms 26:3
1Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. 2Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind. For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness. 4I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. 5I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Read all of Psalms 26Psalms 26:3 word by word
כִּֽי־חַ֭סְדְּךָ לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י וְ֝הִתְהַלַּ֗כְתִּי בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 26:3
- Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
- Psalms 85:10Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
- Matthew 5:44But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
- Luke 6:36Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
- Ephesians 4:32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
- Ephesians 5:1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- Colossians 3:12Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
- 1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
- 3 John 1:11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
- Psalms 25:5Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
- Psalms 101:2I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;
- Psalms 119:142Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.
- 2 Kings 20:3"Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Commentaries on Psalms 26:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3For thy loving-kindness - A sense of thy favor and approbation was more to my heart than thrones and sceptres; and in order to retain this blessing, I have walked in thy truth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes - Thy favor or friendship is constantly before me, in the sense that it is the object of my desire. I wish to secure it; I long to know whether I have sufficient evidence that it is mine. This is a reason why he desires that God would search him. The favor or the friendship of God was an object of intense desire with him. He had evidence upon which he relied, and which seemed to him to be satisfactory, that God…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3For God’s truth to become part of one’s character requires a habitual commitment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. As often, the ground of prayer for present help is former favor.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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