Bible Verses About Instruction

Good Thou art , and doing good, Teach me Thy statutes.

Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I--in Thy law I have delighted.

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

Yod. Thy hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Thy commands.

Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped.

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant.

Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight.

Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.

Those fearing Thee turn back to me, And those knowing Thy testimonies.

My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.

Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, `When doth it comfort me?'

For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.

How many are the days of Thy servant? When dost Thou execute Against my pursuers judgment?

The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.

All Thy commands are faithfulness, With falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.

Almost consumed me on earth have they, And I--I have not forsaken Thy precepts.

According to Thy kindness quicken Thou me, And I keep the testimony of Thy mouth!

Lamed. To the age, O Jehovah, Thy word is set up in the heavens.

To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth.

According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole are Thy servants.

Unless Thy law were my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.