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 119:42, 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.
- Acts 27:25
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
- Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
- Matthew 27:63
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
- 2 Samuel 16:7
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
- Psalms 119:74
They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
- Psalms 119:49
Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
- Psalms 56:10
In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
- Psalms 119:81
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
- 2 Samuel 19:18
And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the k…
- Psalms 56:4
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
- 1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
- Psalms 71:10
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
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.