Psalms 26 · Verse 3

Psalms 26:3

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
Psalms 26:3, King James Version

Psalms 26:3 in other translations

BSBFor Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
WEBFor your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
ASVFor thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; And I have walked in thy truth.
YLTFor Thy kindness is before mine eyes, And I have walked habitually in Thy truth.
DARBYFor thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth.
BBEFor your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.
WebsterFor thy loving-kindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

What does Psalms 26:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. As often, the ground of prayer for present help is former favor.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 For thy loving-kindness - A sense of thy favor and approbation was more to my heart than thrones and sceptres; and in order to retain this blessing, I have walked in thy truth.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 26:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
חַ֭סְדְּךָChas.de.khacovenant loyalty yourH2617
לְנֶ֣גֶדle.Ne.ged[is] to beforeH5048
עֵינָ֑י'ei.Naieyes myH5869
וְ֝הִתְהַלַּ֗כְתִּיve.hit.ha.Lakh.tiand I walk aboutH1980
בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ\׃ba.'a.mi.Te.khain faithfulness yourH571

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 26:3

  • 1 John 1:7

    But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

  • 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.

  • Ephesians 4:32-5:2

    And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

  • 2 John 1:4

    I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:9

    For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:18

    But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  • 3 John 1:3-4

    For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

  • 1 John 4:19-21

    We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth 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? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

  • John 14:6

    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

  • Isaiah 2:5

    O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

  • 1 John 4:7-12

    Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. …

  • Psalms 119:142

    Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For.
52:1; 85:10-13; Mt 5:44-48; Lu 6:36; 2Co 3:18; 5:14,15; 8:9
Eph 4:32; 5:1,2; Col 3:12,13; 1Jo 4:7-12,19-21; 3Jo 1:11
and.
25:5; 101:2; 119:142; 2Ki 20:3; Isa 2:5; 8:20; Joh 14:6; Eph 4:20-25
1Jo 1:7; 2Jo 1:4; 3Jo 1:3,4

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Context

  • Psalms 26:2

    Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

  • Psalms 26:3

    For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

  • Psalms 26:4

    I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

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Psalms 26:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque tu misericordia está delante de mis ojos, y en tu verdad ando.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car ta bonté est devant mes yeux, et j’ai marché dans ta vérité.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn deine Güte ist vor meinen Augen, und in deiner Wahrheit wandle ich.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Si consistant adversum me castra, non timebit cor meum; si exsurgat adversum me prælium, in hoc ego sperabo.