Job 23:12

World English Bible (2000)

I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
  • John 4:32 : 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
  • John 6:66-69 : 66 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?" 68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  • John 8:31 : 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
  • Ps 19:9-9 : 9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
  • Job 6:10 : 10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
  • Luke 12:42 : 42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

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    22For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

    23For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

  • 16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

  • Ps 17:3-5
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    74%

    3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

    4As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

    5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

  • Ps 18:21-22
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    21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

    22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

  • 13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

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    101I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

    102I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

    103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

  • 30(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

  • 43Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

  • Ps 119:10-11
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    71%

    10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

    11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • 14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

  • 13though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

  • 12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

  • 13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

  • 131I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

  • 16Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

  • 27and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

  • 72The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD

  • Ps 141:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

    4Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.

  • 11Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

  • 127Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

  • Prov 30:8-9
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    8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

    9lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

  • 1I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

  • 22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

  • 10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

  • 56This is my way, that I keep your precepts. CHET

  • 16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

  • 18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

  • 4surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

  • 3My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

  • 5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

  • 18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

  • 5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.

  • 13neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

  • 14for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • 17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

  • 7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

  • 14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

  • 34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

  • 60I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.

  • 9If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].