Verse 3

Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:16 : 16 Hear me, O LORD, for your lovingkindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better;
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 I implore you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Jas 3:5-9 : 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
  • Ps 51:15 : 15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.
  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger lasts only a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may last for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
  • Ps 30:12 : 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.
  • Ps 21:6 : 6 For you have made him most blessed forever: you have made him exceedingly glad with your presence.
  • Ps 66:17 : 17 I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be: but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.