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Psalm 103

Psa. 103:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Tod such as keep
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
his covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
, and to those that remember
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
his commandments
piqquwd (Hebrew #6490)
from 6485; properly, appointed, i.e. a mandate (of God; plural only, collectively, for the Law)
KJV usage: commandment, precept, statute.
Pronounce: pik-kood'
Origin: or piqqud {pik-kood'}
to do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ex. 20:6• 6and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. (Ex. 20:6)
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Deut. 7:9• 9And thou shalt know that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful *God, who keepeth covenant and mercy to a thousand generations with them that love him and keep his commandments; (Deut. 7:9)

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Ministry on This Verse

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To such.
Psa. 25:10• 10All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. (Psa. 25:10)
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Psa. 132:12• 12If thy children keep my covenant, and my testimonies which I will teach them, their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne. (Psa. 132:12)
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Gen. 17:9‑10• 9And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.
 10This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee--that every male among you be circumcised. (Gen. 17:9‑10)
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Ex. 19:5• 5And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples--for all the earth is mine-- (Ex. 19:5)
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Ex. 24:8• 8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words. (Ex. 24:8)
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Deut. 7:9• 9And thou shalt know that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful *God, who keepeth covenant and mercy to a thousand generations with them that love him and keep his commandments; (Deut. 7:9)
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2 Chron. 34:31• 31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book. (2 Chron. 34:31)
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Heb. 8:6‑13• 6But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.
 7For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.
 8For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;
 9not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith the Lord.
 10Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people.
 11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.
 12Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
 13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing. (Heb. 8:6‑13)
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Psa. 119:9‑11• 9BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his path? by taking heed according to thy word.
 10With my whole heart have I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandments.
 11Thy *word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. (Psa. 119:9‑11)
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Deut. 4:23• 23Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee. (Deut. 4:23)
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Deut. 6:6‑9• 6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart;
 7and thou shalt impress them on thy sons, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
 8And thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
 9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates. (Deut. 6:6‑9)
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Prov. 3:1• 1My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments; (Prov. 3:1)
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Matt. 28:20• 20teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age. (Matt. 28:20)
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Luke 1:6• 6And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. (Luke 1:6)
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Acts 24:16• 16For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men. (Acts 24:16)
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1 Thess. 4:1• 1For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more. (1 Thess. 4:1)
• This mercy and righteousness is towards such as keep His covenant and do His commands. Is not this the unconditional covenant made with Abraham, under which the nation being brought into blessing can at last keep Jehovah’s commands (Rom. 8:4)? (“Psalms 103” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his precepts to do them.

W. Kelly Translation

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To those that keep his covenant,{HR}And to those that remember his precepts to do them,