56 This has become mine,
Because I kept Your precepts.

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

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19 And by this we [a]know (A)that we are of the truth, and shall [b]assure our hearts before Him. 20 (B)For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, (C)we have confidence toward God. 22 And (D)whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments (E)and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ (F)and love one another, as He gave [c]us commandment.

The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error

24 Now (G)he who keeps His commandments (H)abides in Him, and He 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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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:19 NU shall know
  2. 1 John 3:19 persuade, set at rest
  3. 1 John 3:23 M omits us

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 (A)Great peace have those who love Your law,
And [a]nothing causes them to stumble.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:165 Lit. they have no stumbling block

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 (A)He also brought me out into a broad place;
He delivered me because He delighted in me.

20 (B)The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands
He has recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me,
And I did not put away His statutes from me.

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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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