Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 118:6

“The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”

Psalms 118:6 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 118:6, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 118. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 13 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Hebrews 13:6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
  • Romans 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
  • Psalms 56:4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
  • Psalms 56:11In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
  • Micah 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
  • Psalms 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
  • Psalms 56:9When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
  • Jeremiah 20:11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlas…
  • Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  • Isaiah 51:12I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
  • Psalms 46:11The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
  • Psalms 146:5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
  • Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 30:5Psalms 55:22

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.