Psalm 119:71 {118:71}
Good News Translation
My punishment was good for me, because it made me learn your commands.

New Revised Standard Version
It is good for me that I was humbled, so that I might learn your statutes.

Contemporary English Version
When you corrected me, it did me good because it taught me to study your laws.

New American Bible
It was good for me to be afflicted, in order to learn your statutes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

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Psalm 119:67 Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.

Psalm 94:12,13 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. . . .

Isaiah 27:9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

1 Corinthians 11:32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

Hebrews 12:10,11 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
70Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law. 71It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.72The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver.…
Cross References
Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Psalm 119:67
Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.

Psalm 119:75
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

Isaiah 38:16
O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.

Lamentations 3:33
Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

Psalm 119:70
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