Bible Verses About Instruction

Don't take away completely my power to speak the truth; for I put my hope in your rulings;

and I will keep your Torah always, forever and ever.

I will go wherever I like, for I have sought your precepts.

I will speak of your instructions even to kings without being ashamed.

I will delight myself in your mitzvot, which I have loved.

I will lift my hands to your mitzvot, which I love; and I will meditate on your laws.

(Zayin) Remember your promise to your servant, through which you have given me hope.

In my distress my comfort is this: that your promise gives me life.

Though the arrogant scorn me completely, I have not turned away from your Torah.

ADONAI, I keep in mind your age-old rulings; in them I take comfort.

Fury seizes me when I think of the wicked, because they abandon your Torah.

Your laws have become my songs wherever I make my home.

I remember your name, ADONAI, at night; and I observe your Torah.

This [comfort] has come to me, because I observe your precepts.

(Het) ADONAI, I say that my task is to observe your words.

I beg your favor with my whole heart; show pity to me, in keeping with your promise.

I thought about my ways and turned my feet toward your instruction.

I hurry, I don't delay, to observe your mitzvot.

Even when the cords of the wicked close around me, I don't forget your Torah.

At midnight I rise to give you thanks because of your righteous rulings.

I am a friend of all who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

The earth, ADONAI, is full of your grace; teach me your laws.

(Tet) You have treated your servant well, ADONAI, in keeping with your word.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, because I trust in your mitzvot.

Before I was humbled, I used to go astray; but now I observe your word.