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 16:1, 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.
- Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
- Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- Psalms 56:1
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
- Psalms 31:23
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
- 2 Timothy 1:12
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to ke…
- Psalms 7:1
O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
- Psalms 116:6
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
- Psalms 84:12
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
- Psalms 60:1
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
- Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
- Psalms 146:5
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
- Psalms 9:10
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
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.