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 1:1, 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 web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 26:4
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Proverbs 4:14
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
- Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- Psalms 119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 15:17
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
- Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- Luke 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
- Psalms 1:6
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- Psalms 34:8
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
- Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
- Deuteronomy 28:2
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
- Psalms 112:1
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
More to meet God in Psalms
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.