Psalm 119:4
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Cross-references
In Joshua 1:7, Joshua is urged to be careful to obey all the law, mirroring the diligent keeping of precepts in Psalm 119:4.
In 1 John 5:3, keeping commands is defined as love for God, and they are not burdensome, directly reinforcing the call to diligent obedience.
In John 14:21, keeping commands is the evidence of love for Jesus, with added promises of mutual love and revelation.
In John 14:15, Jesus ties keeping his commands to love for him, providing a New Covenant motivation for diligent obedience.
In Matthew 28:20, Jesus commissions teaching obedience to his commands, extending the call to keep precepts to the NT church.
In Jeremiah 7:23, God commands obedience and promises relationship, echoing the imperative to keep precepts diligently.
In Deuteronomy 30:16, the same command to keep God's decrees is paired with a promise of life and blessing, reinforcing the call to diligence.
In Deuteronomy 28:1-14, the call to diligently keep God's commands is directly linked to promised blessings, expanding on the motivation behind Psalm 119:4's command.
Deuteronomy 12:32 says be careful to observe God's commands — parallels the psalm's charge to keep precepts diligently.
Deuteronomy 11:22 commands carefully keeping all commandments and walking in God's ways — mirrors the psalm's diligent keeping.
Deuteronomy 11:13 calls for earnestly obeying God's commandments — the same diligent obedience theme as the psalm.
Deuteronomy 6:17 says 'diligently keep the commandments of the LORD' — nearly identical wording to Psalm 119:4's command.
Deuteronomy 5:29-33 stresses keeping all commandments and walking in God's ways — the same diligent obedience as the psalm.
Deuteronomy 4:9 urges diligent keeping of God's commands — directly echoing the psalm's 'keep Your precepts diligently'.
Deuteronomy 4:1 commands Israel to observe God's statutes — the same call to keep precepts diligently as in the psalm.
In Exodus 7:6, Moses and Aaron do exactly as the LORD commanded — a concrete example of the diligent obedience this verse commands.
In Joshua 22:5, the charge to 'be very careful to do the commandment' mirrors the diligent keeping commanded in this verse.
Ezra 7:23 insists that 'whatever is commanded by God be done in full' — directly paralleling the diligent keeping of precepts.
Ezekiel 44:5 commands marking well all the temple's statutes — an example of the careful attention to God's precepts demanded here.
2 Peter 1:5 urges making every effort to add virtues, parallel to the psalm's call for diligent obedience.
1 John 2:5 ties obeying God's word to perfected love, reinforcing the value of keeping precepts.