Psalms 119:69

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“Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.”

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BSBPD

“Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 119:69 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
  2. Psalms 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
  3. Psalms 109:2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
  4. Psalms 119:2Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
  5. Psalms 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
  6. Psalms 119:51The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
  7. Psalms 119:58I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.
  8. Psalms 119:157Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
  9. Jeremiah 43:2Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’
  10. Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
  11. Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  12. Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
  13. Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
  14. Acts 24:13Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.
  15. James 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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