Virtuous Solicitude
Psalm 119:5
O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!


A solicitude to perform our duty, to practise holiness at all times, and to make a constant progress in it, is an essential ingredient in a virtuous temper, a necessary qualification of our obedience, and a powerful means of our becoming active and steadfast in it. It implies —

1. A lively sense of the supreme importance of holiness.

2. A settled love of goodness, and hatred of iniquity.

3. A vigorous, constant, and prevailing desire to keep God's statutes.

4. A firm resolution to keep them.

5. A prevailing bias of the whole soul towards virtuous practice.

6. Fervent desire of God's assistance in the practice of holiness.

(A. Gerard, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

WEB: Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!




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