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 112:5, 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 37:21
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
- Proverbs 2:20
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
- Ephesians 5:15
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
- Deuteronomy 15:7
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden …
- Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
- Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
- John 6:12
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
- Luke 6:35
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest…
- Romans 5:7
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
- Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
- Luke 23:50
And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just:
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.