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Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your lovingkindness.
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An Appeal Based on Love
Commentators explain that the plea, "Consider how I love thy precepts," is not a boast of perfection but a sincere appeal based on a loving relationship. Like a child to a father or Peter to Jesus, a believer can confidently point to their genuine love for God's ways as a foundation for their requests, even amidst personal failings.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Consider how I love thy precepts — Search me. Behold the evidence of my attachment to your law. This is the confident appeal of one…
19th Century
Baptist
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
My heart is right, I do love you; but I feel…
16th Century
Protestant
Behold, O Jehovah, how I have loved your commandments. What I have stated before must be remembered—that when the saints speak of their ow…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Consider how I love your precepts How ardently and affectionately, how cordially and sincerely, ([Reference Psalms 1…
The closer we cling to the word of God, both as our rule and as our support, the more assurance we have of deliverance. Christ is the Advocate of H…
