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 119:47, 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 119:48
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
- Psalms 119:97
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
- Psalms 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Psalms 119:174
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
- Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- Psalms 112:1
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
- Psalms 119:167
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
- Psalms 119:140
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
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.