Psalms 116:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.”
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BSBPD
“I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I love Jehovah, because he heareth My voice and my supplications.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“I have loved, because Jehovah heareth My voice, my supplication,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 116:1 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 35:2So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Numbers 21:3And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
- 1 Samuel 1:26“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
- 1 Kings 9:3And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- Psalms 18:1I love You, O LORD, my strength.
- Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Psalms 28:6Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.
- Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- Psalms 34:3Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
- Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
- Psalms 66:19But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
- Psalms 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Psalms 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- Isaiah 38:15What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
- Lamentations 3:56You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
- Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
- Mark 12:33and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- John 16:24Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
- John 21:17Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
- 1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
- 1 John 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
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