56 This blessing has fallen to me,
    that (A)I have kept your precepts.

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56 This has been my practice:
    I obey your precepts.(A)

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19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, (A)if our heart does not condemn us, (B)we have confidence before God; 22 and (C)whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and (D)do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, (E)that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and (F)love one another, (G)just as he has commanded us. 24 (H)Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[a] and God[b] in him. And (I)by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

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  1. 1 John 3:24 Greek him
  2. 1 John 3:24 Greek he

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends,(A) if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God(B) 22 and receive from him anything we ask,(C) because we keep his commands(D) and do what pleases him.(E) 23 And this is his command: to believe(F) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,(G) and to love one another as he commanded us.(H) 24 The one who keeps God’s commands(I) lives in him,(J) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.(K)

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165 Great (A)peace have those who love your law;
    (B)nothing can make them stumble.

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165 Great peace(A) have those who love your law,
    and nothing can make them stumble.(B)

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18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
    but the Lord was my support.
19 He brought me out into (A)a broad place;
    he rescued me, because he (B)delighted in me.

20 The Lord dealt with me (C)according to my righteousness;
    according to (D)the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
21 For I have (E)kept the ways of the Lord,
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For (F)all his rules[a] were before me,
    and his statutes I did not put away from me.

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  1. Psalm 18:22 Or just decrees

18 They confronted me in the day of my disaster,(A)
    but the Lord was my support.(B)
19 He brought me out into a spacious place;(C)
    he rescued me because he delighted in me.(D)

20 The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness;(E)
    according to the cleanness of my hands(F) he has rewarded me.(G)
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord;(H)
    I am not guilty of turning(I) from my God.
22 All his laws are before me;(J)
    I have not turned away from his decrees.

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