Psalm 119:40 {118:40}
Good News Translation
I want to obey your commands; give me new life, for you are righteous.

New Revised Standard Version
See, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.

Contemporary English Version
I long for your teachings. Be true to yourself and let me live.

New American Bible
See how I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.

I have

Psalm 119:5,20 O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. . . .

Matthew 26:41 Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Romans 7:24 Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

Philippians 3:13,14 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do: Forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before, . . .

quicken

Psalm 119:25,37,88,107,149,156,159 My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word. . . .

Mark 9:24 And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears said: I do believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.

John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.

1 Corinthians 15:45 The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ (by whose grace you are saved)

3 John 1:2 Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make it my prayer that thou mayest proceed prosperously and fare well, as thy soul doth prosperously.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
39Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful. 40Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.41Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:20
My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.

Psalm 119:25
My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:39
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