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New Living Translation

Psalms 37:31

They have made God's law their own, so they will never slip from his path.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Perfection;   Righteous;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Law;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Stumbling/slipping;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Estate;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Slide;   Steps;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 14;   Every Day Light - Devotion for January 20;   Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for August 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The instruction of his God is in his heart;his steps do not falter.
Hebrew Names Version
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
King James Version
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
English Standard Version
The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.
New Century Version
The teachings of their God are in their heart, so they do not fail to keep them.
New English Translation
The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.
Amplified Bible
The law of his God is in his heart; Not one of his steps will slip.
New American Standard Bible
The Law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.
World English Bible
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lawe of his God is in his heart, and his steppes shall not slide.
Legacy Standard Bible
The law of his God is in his heart;His steps do not slip.
Berean Standard Bible
The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.
Contemporary English Version
They remember God's teachings, and they never take a wrong step.
Complete Jewish Bible
The Torah of his God is in his heart; his footsteps do not falter.
Darby Translation
the law of his God is in his heart; his goings shall not slide.
Easy-to-Read Version
They have learned God's teachings, and they will never stop living right.
George Lamsa Translation
The law of God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Good News Translation
They keep the law of their God in their hearts and never depart from it.
Lexham English Bible
The law of his God is in his heart. His steps will not slip.
Literal Translation
The Law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slide.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The mouth of the rightuous is exercised in wy?dome, & his toge talketh of iudgment.
American Standard Version
The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
Bible in Basic English
The law of his God is in his heart; he will never make a false step.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps slide.
King James Version (1611)
The Law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slide.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The lawe of his God is in his heart: therfore his feete shall not slide.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.
English Revised Version
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The lawe of his God is in his herte; and hise steppis schulen not be disseyued.
Update Bible Version
The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
Webster's Bible Translation
The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
New King James Version
The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
New Life Bible
The Law of his God is in his heart. His steps do not leave it.
New Revised Standard
The law of their God is in their hearts; their steps do not slip.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The law of his God, is in his heart, his steps shall not swerve.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-31) The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted.
Revised Standard Version
The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.
Young's Literal Translation
The law of his God [is] his heart, His steps do not slide.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.

Contextual Overview

21 The wicked borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers. 22 Those the Lord blesses will possess the land, but those he curses will die. 23 The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. 24 Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand. 25 Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. 26 The godly always give generous loans to others, and their children are a blessing. 27 Turn from evil and do good, and you will live in the land forever. 28 For the Lord loves justice, and he will never abandon the godly. He will keep them safe forever, but the children of the wicked will die. 29 The godly will possess the land and will live there forever. 30 The godly offer good counsel; they teach right from wrong.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

law: Psalms 1:2, Psalms 40:3, Psalms 40:8, Psalms 119:11, Psalms 119:98, Deuteronomy 6:6, Deuteronomy 11:18-20, Proverbs 4:4, Isaiah 51:7, Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10

none: Psalms 37:23, Psalms 121:3

steps: or, goings, Psalms 17:5, Psalms 40:2, Psalms 44:18, *marg. Psalms 73:2, Job 23:11, Proverbs 14:15, Ezekiel 27:6, *marg.

Reciprocal: Joshua 1:8 - book Job 33:3 - my lips Psalms 26:1 - I shall Proverbs 2:8 - and Proverbs 3:23 - General Proverbs 10:11 - mouth of a Proverbs 15:26 - but Proverbs 16:23 - heart Matthew 12:35 - good man Luke 6:45 - good man Ephesians 4:29 - that which Colossians 4:6 - your

Cross-References

Genesis 37:3
Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe.
Genesis 37:23
So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.
Proverbs 28:13
People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The law of his God [is] in his heart,.... Which may be understood of the moral law, which was written in the heart of Adam an his creation, and continued there during his state of innocence, but was greatly obliterated by sin: there are some remains of it in fallen man, even in the very Gentiles; who, though without the law, do some things contained in it, which shows the work of it to be written in them; though in some it is scarcely legible, having lost all distinction between good and evil: but in regeneration the law of God is reinscribed, according to the promise of the covenant of grace,

Jeremiah 31:33; and such have a real knowledge of the spirituality and perfection of it; of the impossibility of justification by it; and of Christ being the fulfilling end of it: and they have a strong affection for it; they love it; and delight in it after the inward man, and serve it with their minds; in which lies part of their conformity to Christ, and is a branch of their character as good men; see Psalms 40:8; moreover, the word תורת, here used, signifies any doctrine or instruction, and is sometimes used for the doctrine of the Gospel, Isaiah 2:3, and may have this sense here, and the meaning be, that that has a place in the hearts or righteous men, dwells richly there, and works effectually in them; and particularly the doctrine of grace which relates to covenant interest in God; for it is the law or doctrine of "his God" that is in his heart;

none of his steps shall slide; not that he shall never slip nor fall; for that is supposed Psalms 37:24; but he shall never finally and totally go out of the paths of truth, holiness, and righteousness: the Lord keeps the feet of his saints, and orders their steps, and directs them in the way they should go, and preserves them in it; and enables them to walk uprightly, according to the rule of the divine word, and in all his commandments and ordinances; and to hold on and out unto the end: or the clause may be rendered, "it", the law, "shall not cause his steps to slide" b; neither the law of God, nor the Gospel of Christ, but shall guide him in the right way, and be a lamp unto his feet, and a light unto his path.

b תמעד אשריו "non vacillat gressus ejus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of his God is in his heart - That is, he loves it; he thinks of it; he makes it the inward rule of his conduct: Deuteronomy 6:6; Psalms 40:8 The word “law” here is a general term for the truth of God - for all that he has revealed to guide men. As long as that truth is in the heart; as long as it is the object of love; as long as it is suffered to guide and control us, so long will our words and conduct be right.

None of his steps shall slide - Margin, “goings.” The idea is, that his course will be firm and steady. He will not fall into sin, and his life will be prosperous and happy. This is in accordance with the general sentiment in the psalm, that religion tends to promote prosperity, happiness, and length of days on the earth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 37:31. The law of his God is in his heart — The Lord promised that a time should come in which he would make a new covenant with the house of Israel; he would put his laws in their minds, and in their hearts he would write them. This is fulfilled in the case above.

None of his steps shall slide. — His holy heart always dictates to his eyes, his mouth, his hands, and his feet. The precepts which direct his conduct are not only written in his Bible, but also in his heart.


 
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