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Psalm 26

Psa. 26:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For thy lovingkindness
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
is before mine eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
: and I have walked
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
in thy truth
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
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Psa. 52:1• 1To the chief musician; an instruction of David, when Doeg the Edomite went in, and told Saul and said to him, David went to the house of Ahimelech.{HR}Why boastest thou thyself in evil, mighty man?{HR}The mercy of God [is] all the day. (Psa. 52:1)
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Psa. 85:10‑13• 10Mercy and truth are met together;{HR}Righteousness and peace have kissed.
 11Truth shall spring up from the earth,{HR}And righteousness shall look down from heaven.
 12Jehovah also will give good;{HR}And our land shall yield its increase.
 13Righteousness shall go before him,{HR}And shall set his footsteps in the way. (Psa. 85:10‑13)
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Matt. 5:44‑48• 44But I say to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those that persecute you,
 45that ye may be sons of your Father that is in [the] heavens; for he maketh his sun rise on evil and good, and sendeth rain on just and unjust.
 46For if ye should love those that love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax-gatherers the same?
 47And if ye should salute your brethren only, what beyond do ye? Do not even the Gentiles the same?
 48Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matt. 5:44‑48)
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Luke 6:36• 36Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful. (Luke 6:36)
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2 Cor. 3:18• 18but we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from [the] Lord [the] Spirit. (2 Cor. 3:18)
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2 Cor. 5:14‑15• 14For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead;
 15and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for them died and rose. (2 Cor. 5:14‑15)
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2 Cor. 8:9• 9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he being rich became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might become rich. (2 Cor. 8:9)
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Eph. 4:32• 32and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:32)
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Eph. 5:1‑2• 1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love,
 2even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell. (Eph. 5:1‑2)
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Col. 3:12‑13• 12Put on therefore, as elect of God, holy [and] beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering;
 13forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any should have a complaint against any; even as also the Lord forgave you, so also [do] ye; (Col. 3:12‑13)
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1 John 4:7‑12,19‑21• 7Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God; and every one that loveth hath been begotten of God, and knoweth God.
 8He that loveth not knew not God, because God is love.
 9Herein was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
 10Herein is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent his Son [as] propitiation for our sins.
 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
 12No one hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love hath been perfected in us.
 19We love, because he first loved us.
 20If Anyone say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
 21And this commandment have we from him, that he that loveth God love also his brother. (1 John 4:7‑12,19‑21)
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3 John 11• 11Beloved, imitate not the evil but the good. The good-doer is of God; the evil-doer hath not seen God. (3 John 11)
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Psa. 25:5• 5Lead me in thy truth and teach me,{HR}For thou [art] the God of my salvation;{HR}For thee have I waited all the day. (Psa. 25:5)
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Psa. 101:2• 2I will behave myself wisely in an upright way:{HR}When wilt thou come unto me?{HR}I will walk within my house in uprightness of my heart. (Psa. 101:2)
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Psa. 119:142• 142Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness,{HR}And thy law truth. (Psa. 119:142)
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2 Kings 20:3• 3I beseech, O Jehovah, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. (2 Kings 20:3)
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Isa. 2:5• 5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah. (Isa. 2:5)
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Isa. 8:20• 20To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. (Isa. 8:20)
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John 14:6• 6Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father but by me. (John 14:6)
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Eph. 4:20‑25• 20But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,
 21if indeed ye have heard him and been taught in him even as [the] truth is in Jesus,
 22that ye should put off, according to your former conversation, the old man that is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit,
 23and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
 24and put on the new man, that according to God was created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
 25Wherefore having put off falsehood, speak truth each with his neighbour, for we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:20‑25)
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1 John 1:7• 7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [Christ] his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)
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2 John 4• 4I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth even as we received commandment from the Father. (2 John 4)
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3 John 3‑4• 3For I rejoiced exceedingly when brethren came and bore witness to thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.
 4I have no greater joy than these things, that I hear of my children walking in the truth. (3 John 3‑4)
• The loving kindness of the Lord is before his soul. He realizes that there is grace with the Lord to meet all that the searchings of the Lord may discover. (“Psalm 26” by H. Smith)
• His practical ways are such as become a godly man. (“Psalm 26” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth.

W. Kelly Translation

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For thy mercy [is] before mine eyes,{HR}And I have walked in thy truth.