Psalms 119:17

ג (Gimel)

119:17 Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live ¹  and keep ²  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 obeys ⁵  them is the one who loves me. ⁶  The one ⁷  who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal ⁸  myself to him.”

John 15:10

15:10 If you obey ⁹  my commandments, you will remain ¹⁰  in my love, just as I have obeyed ¹¹  my Father’s commandments and remain ¹²  in his love.

[119:17]  ¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:17]  ² tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.

[119:17]  ³ tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions read the plural here.

[119:34]  ⁴ tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.

[14:21]  ⁵ tn Or “keeps.”

[14:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

[14:21]  ⁷ tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.

[14:21]  ⁸ tn Or “will disclose.”

[15:10]  ⁹ tn Or “keep.”

[15:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “reside.”

[15:10]  ¹¹ tn Or “kept.”

[15:10]  ¹² tn Or “reside.”