Psalms 118:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.”
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BSBPD
“The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 118:18 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 12:10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
- 2 Samuel 13:1After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 16:1When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
- Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
- Job 33:16He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings
- Psalms 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Proverbs 3:11My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
- 2 Corinthians 6:9as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
- Hebrews 12:10Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
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