Tree of Life Version
Psalms 25:14
14The secret of Adonai is for those who fear Him. He makes His covenant known to them.
Psalms 25:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant.
Context of Psalms 25:14
12Who is this man who fears Adonai? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. 13His soul abides in goodness, and his offspring will inherit the land. The secret of Adonai is for those who fear Him. He makes His covenant known to them. 15My eyes are always looking to Adonai, for He will pull my feet out of the net. 16Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Read all of Psalms 25Psalms 25:14 word by word
ס֣וֹד יְ֭הוָה לִירֵאָ֑יו וּ֝בְרִית֗וֹ לְהוֹדִיעָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 25:14
- Genesis 18:17when Adonai said, “Should I keep secret from Abraham what I am about to do,
- Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”
- Proverbs 3:32For the devious are detestable to Adonai, but He takes the upright into His confidence.
- Matthew 13:11And He replied to them, “To you has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
- John 7:17If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether My teaching comes from God or it is Myself speaking.
- John 14:17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him. You know Him, because He abides with you and will be in you.
- John 15:15“I am no longer calling you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. Now I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
- John 17:6“I have made Your name known to the men of this world that You gave Me. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14Now a natural man does not accept the things of the Ruach Elohim, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Ephesians 1:9He made known to us the mystery of His will, in keeping with His good pleasure that He planned in Messiah.
- Colossians 3:3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in God.
- Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Ruach is saying to Messiah’s communities. To the one who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna , and I will give him a white stone—and written on the stone a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.”
- Genesis 17:13Your house-born slave and your purchased slave must surely be circumcised. So My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Deuteronomy 4:13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to do—the Ten Words—and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
- Jeremiah 31:31not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they broke My covenant, though I was a husband to them.” it is a declaration of Adonai.
- Romans 11:26and in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer shall come out of Zion. He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
Commentaries on Psalms 25:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The secret of the Lord is with them - טוד sod, the secret assembly of the Lord is with them that fear him; many of them have a Church in their own house. He will show them his covenant - He will let them see how great blessings he has provided for them that love him. Some refer this to the covenant of redemption by Christ Jesus.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14The secret of the Lord - On the word here rendered “secret,” see the notes at Job 15:8. It properly means a couch or cushion; and then, a divan or circle of friends sitting together; then, deliberation or consultation; then, familiar contact, intimacy; and then, a “secret,” - as if it were the result of a private consultation among friends, or something which pertained to them, and which they did not wish to have known. It is rendered “secret” in Genesis…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-14Verses 8-14 We are all sinners; and Christ came into the world to save sinners, to teach sinners, to call sinners to repentance. We value a promise by the character of him that makes it; we therefore depend upon God's promises. All the paths of the Lord, that is, all his promises and all his providences, are mercy and truth. In all God's dealings his people may see his mercy displayed, and his word fulfilled, whatever afflictions they are now exercised…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-15Those who fear the Lord will receive further instruction and experience God’s presence (Psalm 25:14) and blessing (25:13).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. The reason of the blessing explained--the pious enjoy communion with God (compare Pr 3:21, 12), and, of course, learn His gracious terms of pardon.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 25
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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