Psalms 119:17

ג (Gimel)

119:17 Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live¹ and keep² your instructions.³

Psalms 119:34

119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,

and keep it with all my heart.⁴

John 14:21

14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys⁵ them is the one who loves me.⁶ The one⁷ who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal⁸ myself to him.”

John 15:10

15:10 If you obey⁹ my commandments, you will remain¹⁰ in my love, just as I have obeyed¹¹ my Father’s commandments and remain¹² in his love.

¹tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

²tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.

³tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions read the plural here.

⁴tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.

⁵tn Or “keeps.”

⁶tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

⁷tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.

⁸tn Or “will disclose.”

⁹tn Or “keep.”

¹⁰tn Or “reside.”

¹¹tn Or “kept.”

¹²tn Or “reside.”