Psalm 119:96 {118:96}
Good News Translation
I have learned that everything has limits; but your commandment is perfect.

New Revised Standard Version
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Contemporary English Version
Nothing is completely perfect, except your teachings.

New American Bible
I have seen the limits of all perfection, but your commandment is without bounds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.

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Psalm 39:5,6 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. . . .

1 Samuel 9:2 And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people.

1 Samuel 17:8,49-51 And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down and fight hand to hand. . . .

1 Samuel 31:4,5 Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. . . .

2 Samuel 14:25 But in all Israel there was not a man so comely, and so exceedingly beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of the foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

2 Samuel 16:23 Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel, both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

2 Samuel 18:14,17 And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak, . . .

Ecclesiastes 1:2,3 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. . . .

Ecclesiastes 2:11 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.

Matthew 5:18 For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

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Psalm 19:7,8 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Matthew 5:28 But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. . . .

Mark 12:29-34 And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. . . .

Romans 7:7-12,14 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

Hebrews 4:12,13 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
95The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies. 96I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.97O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:95
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:97
O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 119:95
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