Tree of Life Version
Psalms 26:3
3For Your love 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 King James Version (NKJV)For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
Context of Psalms 26:3
1Of David. Vindicate me, Adonai, for I have walked in my integrity, and trusted in Adonai without wavering. 2Probe me, Adonai, and test me, refine my mind and my heart. For Your love is before my eyes and I have walked in Your truth. 4I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. 5I detest the company of evildoers, and do 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 52:1For the music director: a contemplative song of David,
- Psalms 85:10Surely His salvation is near those who fear Him, so that glory may dwell in our land.
- Matthew 5:44But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
- Luke 6:36Be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate to you.”
- 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 from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Messiah compels us, since we have concluded that One died for all; as a result all died.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah—that even though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.
- Ephesians 4:32Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving each other just as God in Messiah also forgave you.
- Ephesians 5:1Therefore be imitators of God, as dearly loved children;
- Colossians 3:12Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves in tender compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience—
- 1 John 4:7Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
- 3 John 1:11Loved ones, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
- Psalms 25:5Guide me in Your truth, and teach me, for You are God, my salvation, for You I wait all day.
- Psalms 101:2I will behave wisely in the way of integrity —when will You come to me? I walk in my house with integrity in my heart.
- Psalms 119:142Your justice is righteousness forever, and Your Torah is truth.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, Adonai, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes.” 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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