They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
They are God's commandments, sure and firm and established forever in truth and uprightness. The law is a revelation of His will and a transcript of His character, so it is changeless and eternal like Himself, with not one command annulled, altered, or changed. It existed before man was created and governed angels, was known by Adam and Eve at creation, remained unchanged after the fall, and will be honored through the endless ages of eternity as the standard of judgment. It could not be altered to meet man in his fallen condition, so God gave His only begotten Son to die in man's place, to refute the lie that it could not be kept, and to magnify and honor it before the universe. The moral law remains binding unlike the ceremonial law that ceased at Christ's death, so the Ten Commandments including the seventh-day Sabbath are still obligatory and will be kept in the new earth.
Words and Psalm Setting
The “they” that stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness are God’s commandments, which are sure and firm and established in truth and uprightness. They are enduring and righteous, remaining forever because they rest on unchanging authority, and no attack can destroy them. Not one command has been annulled or changed, and the law remains a faithful witness. Its permanence reflects unchanging character and will.
The same permanence belongs to God’s principles, which stand fast forever because they are grounded in truth and uprightness and in His character. They are the principles of His character, and therefore the foundation of enduring reform whose principles are everlasting and cannot be set aside. Though conditions have changed since Eden, the great principles of education remain unchanged and should shape the student’s life through a relationship with Christ. Those seeking entrance into heaven’s kingdom must follow these enduring principles and live in union with Christ.
The same permanence belongs to the Lord’s word, which is sure and steadfast forever and is carried out in truth and uprightness. It is infinite and sure, a trustworthy rule for faith and practice that reveals the standard of character and teaches duty, whose requirements are to be strictly obeyed. Unlike fallible and unreliable human words, it is sound, for every man will prove false. Therefore words from finite man must not be received as the voice of God, nothing is safe without the credentials of heaven, and Christians must pray and study their Bibles more.
In the psalm the verse belongs to praise of God’s works and majesty. His works show His people the power of His works to give them the heritage of the heathen, the works of His hands are verity and judgment, He sent redemption to His people and commanded His covenant forever, so that holy and reverend is His name. They belong to His great, honorable and glorious works and reveal His enduring righteousness, graciousness, compassion, and covenant faithfulness to those who fear Him. They belong to His covenant, of which Christ as great High Priest bearing the names of His people in the holy place is ever mindful. They are to be taught to youth in schools as the education in the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, learned through practice, self-denial, and keeping His commandments, which gives good understanding.
Because the commandments are permanently fixed in truth and uprightness, the title Reverend as holy and reverend belongs to the Lord God Jehovah alone to distinguish His honor and majesty. Sinful mortals must not take it for themselves or clothe themselves with sacred distinction to exalt man to equality with God. For men who profess to honor God to attach it to their own name takes glory from the only living God. They should instead be meek and lowly before Him who dwells in unapproachable light.
God's Unchanging Law
The divine law is a revelation of God's will and a transcript and expression of His character, and for that reason it is changeless and eternal like Jehovah Himself, grounded in truth and uprightness. Its commandments are sure and stand firm forever, made and established in truth and uprightness. Not one command has been annulled, altered, or changed, and the law remains a faithful witness in heaven.
The law existed before humans were created and governed angels, and it was known by Adam and Eve at creation as printed on their hearts. It stayed unchanged after the fall with nothing to be removed or improved, and it will continue through the endless ages of eternity. The sacred statutes will be honored throughout a sinless universe when the world is brought back into God's favor and all lost by sin is restored. It requires purity even in the most secret thoughts and desires and is the standard by which the world will be judged, bringing death as the wages of sin to transgressors and entrance through the gates of the holy city into immortal life and joy before God and the Lamb to the righteous nation that has kept it.
The moral law is abiding and changeless, unlike the ceremonial law which ceased at Christ's death when its types met fulfillment. The Ten Commandments remain binding and unalterable, including the fourth commandment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and Christ's resurrection does not change them. The Sabbath was established at creation before the Fall when God rested, blessed, and hallowed the day, and it will never be abolished but will remain in the new earth where the redeemed and angels will observe it forever in honor of the Creator. God has always had faithful people who keep all His commandments.
The law could not be altered to meet man in his fallen condition, and its penalty for disobedience is death. God did not condemn the race to eternal death nor change the law to make room for the transgressor, but gave His only begotten Son who entered into covenant to save man and vindicate the Father's character as expressed in the law. Coming in the form of man He refuted the lie that God had given a law man could not keep, and giving Himself as a sacrifice for sin He revealed to the heavenly universe that the law is eternal and unchangeable. Through His merits and intercession Christ bears the sinner's guilt and punishment and dies in humanity's place, and God receives people into favor and restores holiness to those who accept the atonement and obey. His death magnifies and honors the law and enforces obedience to its holy precepts, for the law is the foundation of God's government and its transgressors are subject to death.
The commandments keep their binding authority whether the world or the church obeys or disobeys, and no human claim can refute them. What rests on God's unchanging word endures while what is founded on human authority will be overthrown, so attacks against the Bible cannot destroy it.
Trust and Obedient Life
Because the commandments are sure and endure forever and are carried out in truth and uprightness, the Word of God is a sound foundation for study and obedience. The Lord's word stands sure forever in truth and uprightness, and unlike fallible and unreliable human words it is a trustworthy rule for faith and practice that reveals the standard of character and teaches duty, whose requirements are to be strictly obeyed. God's Word is infinite and sure and steadfast forever while every man will prove false, so words coming from finite man must not be received as the voice of God and nothing is safe that does not bear the credentials of heaven, and Christians must pray and study their Bibles more.
All His commandments are sure and stand fast forever and ever in truth and uprightness, and they belong to His covenant of which Christ as great High Priest bearing the names of His people in the holy place is ever mindful. They are to be taught to youth in schools as the education in the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, learned through practice and self-denial and keeping His commandments, which gives good understanding. Though conditions have changed since Eden, the great principles of education stand fast forever because they are principles of God's character, and they remain unchanged and should shape the student's life through a relationship with Christ. God's commandments stand fast forever and remain binding on Christians today, and everyone is tested on obedience to them. God's law and its principles stand forever grounded in truth and uprightness, and the law of God is the foundation of enduring reform whose principles are everlasting and cannot be set aside. God's principles stand firm forever established in truth and uprightness, and those seeking entrance into heaven's kingdom must follow these enduring principles and live in union with Christ.
Truth lives and light shines and cannot be put out, so when the Bible was set aside and burned and men tried to banish it from the earth they failed. The commandments keep their binding authority whether the world or the church obeys or disobeys, and no human claim to refute them can remove that claim. The law is the great standard of righteousness, immutable, indestructible, unchangeable, immortal, and eternal like the character of Jehovah Himself. The keenest intellect cannot make the law void but perishes in the attempt, and ambitious men go down to the grave with their desire for titles and their eloquence and genius forgotten, while God's holy law endures without end.
They are God's commandments, sure and firm and established forever in truth and uprightness. The law is a revelation of His will and a transcript of His character, so it is changeless and eternal like Himself, with not one command annulled, altered, or changed. It existed before man was created and governed angels, was known by Adam and Eve at creation, remained unchanged after the fall, and will be honored through the endless ages of eternity as the standard of judgment. It could not be altered to meet man in his fallen condition, so God gave His only begotten Son to die in man's place, to refute the lie that it could not be kept, and to magnify and honor it before the universe. The moral law remains binding unlike the ceremonial law that ceased at Christ's death, so the Ten Commandments including the seventh-day Sabbath are still obligatory and will be kept in the new earth.
Words and Psalm Setting
The “they” that stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness are God’s commandments, which are sure and firm and established in truth and uprightness. They are enduring and righteous, remaining forever because they rest on unchanging authority, and no attack can destroy them. Not one command has been annulled or changed, and the law remains a faithful witness. Its permanence reflects unchanging character and will.
The same permanence belongs to God’s principles, which stand fast forever because they are grounded in truth and uprightness and in His character. They are the principles of His character, and therefore the foundation of enduring reform whose principles are everlasting and cannot be set aside. Though conditions have changed since Eden, the great principles of education remain unchanged and should shape the student’s life through a relationship with Christ. Those seeking entrance into heaven’s kingdom must follow these enduring principles and live in union with Christ.
The same permanence belongs to the Lord’s word, which is sure and steadfast forever and is carried out in truth and uprightness. It is infinite and sure, a trustworthy rule for faith and practice that reveals the standard of character and teaches duty, whose requirements are to be strictly obeyed. Unlike fallible and unreliable human words, it is sound, for every man will prove false. Therefore words from finite man must not be received as the voice of God, nothing is safe without the credentials of heaven, and Christians must pray and study their Bibles more.
In the psalm the verse belongs to praise of God’s works and majesty. His works show His people the power of His works to give them the heritage of the heathen, the works of His hands are verity and judgment, He sent redemption to His people and commanded His covenant forever, so that holy and reverend is His name. They belong to His great, honorable and glorious works and reveal His enduring righteousness, graciousness, compassion, and covenant faithfulness to those who fear Him. They belong to His covenant, of which Christ as great High Priest bearing the names of His people in the holy place is ever mindful. They are to be taught to youth in schools as the education in the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, learned through practice, self-denial, and keeping His commandments, which gives good understanding.
Because the commandments are permanently fixed in truth and uprightness, the title Reverend as holy and reverend belongs to the Lord God Jehovah alone to distinguish His honor and majesty. Sinful mortals must not take it for themselves or clothe themselves with sacred distinction to exalt man to equality with God. For men who profess to honor God to attach it to their own name takes glory from the only living God. They should instead be meek and lowly before Him who dwells in unapproachable light.
God's Unchanging Law
The divine law is a revelation of God's will and a transcript and expression of His character, and for that reason it is changeless and eternal like Jehovah Himself, grounded in truth and uprightness. Its commandments are sure and stand firm forever, made and established in truth and uprightness. Not one command has been annulled, altered, or changed, and the law remains a faithful witness in heaven.
The law existed before humans were created and governed angels, and it was known by Adam and Eve at creation as printed on their hearts. It stayed unchanged after the fall with nothing to be removed or improved, and it will continue through the endless ages of eternity. The sacred statutes will be honored throughout a sinless universe when the world is brought back into God's favor and all lost by sin is restored. It requires purity even in the most secret thoughts and desires and is the standard by which the world will be judged, bringing death as the wages of sin to transgressors and entrance through the gates of the holy city into immortal life and joy before God and the Lamb to the righteous nation that has kept it.
The moral law is abiding and changeless, unlike the ceremonial law which ceased at Christ's death when its types met fulfillment. The Ten Commandments remain binding and unalterable, including the fourth commandment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and Christ's resurrection does not change them. The Sabbath was established at creation before the Fall when God rested, blessed, and hallowed the day, and it will never be abolished but will remain in the new earth where the redeemed and angels will observe it forever in honor of the Creator. God has always had faithful people who keep all His commandments.
The law could not be altered to meet man in his fallen condition, and its penalty for disobedience is death. God did not condemn the race to eternal death nor change the law to make room for the transgressor, but gave His only begotten Son who entered into covenant to save man and vindicate the Father's character as expressed in the law. Coming in the form of man He refuted the lie that God had given a law man could not keep, and giving Himself as a sacrifice for sin He revealed to the heavenly universe that the law is eternal and unchangeable. Through His merits and intercession Christ bears the sinner's guilt and punishment and dies in humanity's place, and God receives people into favor and restores holiness to those who accept the atonement and obey. His death magnifies and honors the law and enforces obedience to its holy precepts, for the law is the foundation of God's government and its transgressors are subject to death.
The commandments keep their binding authority whether the world or the church obeys or disobeys, and no human claim can refute them. What rests on God's unchanging word endures while what is founded on human authority will be overthrown, so attacks against the Bible cannot destroy it.
Trust and Obedient Life
Because the commandments are sure and endure forever and are carried out in truth and uprightness, the Word of God is a sound foundation for study and obedience. The Lord's word stands sure forever in truth and uprightness, and unlike fallible and unreliable human words it is a trustworthy rule for faith and practice that reveals the standard of character and teaches duty, whose requirements are to be strictly obeyed. God's Word is infinite and sure and steadfast forever while every man will prove false, so words coming from finite man must not be received as the voice of God and nothing is safe that does not bear the credentials of heaven, and Christians must pray and study their Bibles more.
All His commandments are sure and stand fast forever and ever in truth and uprightness, and they belong to His covenant of which Christ as great High Priest bearing the names of His people in the holy place is ever mindful. They are to be taught to youth in schools as the education in the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, learned through practice and self-denial and keeping His commandments, which gives good understanding. Though conditions have changed since Eden, the great principles of education stand fast forever because they are principles of God's character, and they remain unchanged and should shape the student's life through a relationship with Christ. God's commandments stand fast forever and remain binding on Christians today, and everyone is tested on obedience to them. God's law and its principles stand forever grounded in truth and uprightness, and the law of God is the foundation of enduring reform whose principles are everlasting and cannot be set aside. God's principles stand firm forever established in truth and uprightness, and those seeking entrance into heaven's kingdom must follow these enduring principles and live in union with Christ.
Truth lives and light shines and cannot be put out, so when the Bible was set aside and burned and men tried to banish it from the earth they failed. The commandments keep their binding authority whether the world or the church obeys or disobeys, and no human claim to refute them can remove that claim. The law is the great standard of righteousness, immutable, indestructible, unchangeable, immortal, and eternal like the character of Jehovah Himself. The keenest intellect cannot make the law void but perishes in the attempt, and ambitious men go down to the grave with their desire for titles and their eloquence and genius forgotten, while God's holy law endures without end.