1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
1 Kings 8:61 in other translations
| BSB | So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.” |
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| WEB | “Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.” |
| ASV | Let your heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. |
| YLT | and your heart hath been perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as at this day.' |
| DARBY | and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day. |
| BBE | Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day. |
| Webster | Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. |
What does 1 Kings 8:61 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 8:54-61
Never was a congregation dismissed with what was more likely to affect them, and to abide with them. What Solomon asks for in this prayer, is still granted in the intercession of Christ, of which his supplication was a type. We shall receive grace sufficient, suitable, and seasonable, in every time of need. No human heart is of itself willing to obey the gospel call to repentance, faith, and newness of life, walking…
1 Kings 8:61 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 8:61
- 1 Kings 11:4
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- 2 Kings 20:3
I beseech thee, O Lord, 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.
- 1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
- 1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
- Deuteronomy 18:13
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
- Job 1:8
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Philippians 3:12-16
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. …
- Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
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Context
- 1 Kings 8:60
That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.
- 1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
- 1 Kings 8:62
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
1 Kings 8:61 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sea pues perfecto vuestro corazón para con Jehová nuestro Dios, andando en sus estatutos, y guardando sus mandamientos, como el día de hoy. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et que votre cœur soit parfait avec l’ Éternel, notre Dieu, pour marcher dans ses statuts et pour garder ses commandements, comme il en est aujourd’hui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und euer Herz sei ungeteilt mit Jehova, unserem Gott, um in seinen Satzungen zu wandeln und seine Gebote zu beobachten, wie es an diesem Tage ist. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sit quoque cor nostrum perfectum cum Domino Deo nostro, ut ambulemus in decretis ejus, et custodiamus mandata ejus, sicut et hodie. |