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 120:4, 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.
- James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
- Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
- Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
- Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
- Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
- Psalms 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
- Psalms 7:13
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
- Proverbs 11:18
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
- Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their p…
- Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
- Psalms 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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.