New King James Version
Psalms 26:3
3For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.
- 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. I have also trusted in the Lord; I shall not slip. 2Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth. 4I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, Nor will I go in with hypocrites. 5I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And 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 in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.
- Psalms 85:10Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed.
- Matthew 5:44But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
- Luke 6:36Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
- Ephesians 4:32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
- Ephesians 5:1Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
- Colossians 3:12Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
- 1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- 3 John 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.
- Psalms 25:5Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.
- Psalms 101:2I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
- Psalms 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was 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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