The blessed and undefiled are those who do no wrong because they walk in God's ways in obedience to His law. To walk in His ways is to follow God's ways and not human ways, keeping His testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments and righteous judgments with the whole heart, diligently and continually forever. This walk sets His law above all human counsel and wisdom as the rule of life, and keeping His commandments shows love for Him and honors His holy name. Such obedience belongs to the covenant of grace through receiving Christ who gives power to become God's children and do His will, and it is not bondage but liberty, delight, happiness and praise. It stays loyal even when the law is despised, following the example of Jesus who lived by God's ways apart from those around Him, and it calls the young in particular not to follow the conduct of others.
Meaning of Walking Blamelessly
The blessed and undefiled are those who do no iniquity because they walk in God's ways, keeping His law in obedience to Him. Their conduct is marked by obedience to His law, living in obedience as they desire and follow the Lord's way. Walking in His ways means walking in God's ways and not in human ways, keeping His testimonies and seeking Him with the whole heart in obedience to His law. God's law is to be the rule of life, placed above all human counsel and wisdom.
Walking in His ways means keeping His commandments, and that obedience testifies to love for God and honors His holy name. This blessed life keeps His precepts diligently, has its ways directed to keep His statutes, has respect unto all His commandments, learns His righteous judgments, and can praise Him with an upright heart without shame. Those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with the whole heart live without iniquity and walk in His ways, belonging to the blessedness of the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord.
It keeps His law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments and righteous judgments with the whole heart, diligently and continually forever and ever. It seeks Him, delights in and loves His commandments, meditates in His statutes all the day, hopes in His judgments, speaks His testimonies before kings without shame, and walks at liberty. Studying His Word enlarges the heart to run in the way of His commandments, gives a lamp to the feet and a light to the path, and lays down principles of righteousness that clearly define the difference between right and wrong and between truth and error, to be kept and loved exceedingly. Thereby the obedient are made wiser than enemies, teachers and ancients, and this is the language of every truly obedient and sanctified heart. The verse describes the faithful as those who obey God's law and remain loyal to it even when that law is treated with contempt.
Obedience in Doctrine and Life
Doing no iniquity by walking in His ways belongs to the covenant of grace and comes from receiving Christ, who gives power to become God's children, with the assurance that God will lead all who unite to do His will. Bitterness toward the law of Jehovah and enmity with it follows Satan, who first brought sin into the world and led angels, the world, and much of the professed church into apostasy by misrepresenting God's law. Numbers cannot make sin anything but transgression of God's law, and every character must be brought to the test of doing righteousness. The sacredness of God's law means a life walked in God's ways is kept from sin, and joined with Psalm 126 and Psalm 127 it declares that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly interfere, slow to anger and great in power yet refusing to acquit the wicked.
Jesus lived differently from those around Him because He followed God's ways, and His choice not to join the other young people's frolics is the example of living by God's word and ways. The verse therefore calls young people to desire and follow the Lord's way, keeping His ways in obedience to Him. It presents obedience to God's ways as the answer to pressure to follow the conduct of others.
Obedience to the law is not a restriction on liberty but a good service, for the law is perfect to convert the soul. Those who follow His principles keep His commandments as a delight and a continuing commitment, willingly and cheerfully, making their walk a way of happiness and praise to God, with love for the law as daily meditation. Learning His righteous judgments calls for a decided testimony in every line, in features, in temper, in words, and in character, with positive words for the Lord and no evil report by sadness of countenance or ill-advised words.
The blessed and undefiled are those who do no wrong because they walk in God's ways in obedience to His law. To walk in His ways is to follow God's ways and not human ways, keeping His testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments and righteous judgments with the whole heart, diligently and continually forever. This walk sets His law above all human counsel and wisdom as the rule of life, and keeping His commandments shows love for Him and honors His holy name. Such obedience belongs to the covenant of grace through receiving Christ who gives power to become God's children and do His will, and it is not bondage but liberty, delight, happiness and praise. It stays loyal even when the law is despised, following the example of Jesus who lived by God's ways apart from those around Him, and it calls the young in particular not to follow the conduct of others.
Meaning of Walking Blamelessly
The blessed and undefiled are those who do no iniquity because they walk in God's ways, keeping His law in obedience to Him. Their conduct is marked by obedience to His law, living in obedience as they desire and follow the Lord's way. Walking in His ways means walking in God's ways and not in human ways, keeping His testimonies and seeking Him with the whole heart in obedience to His law. God's law is to be the rule of life, placed above all human counsel and wisdom.
Walking in His ways means keeping His commandments, and that obedience testifies to love for God and honors His holy name. This blessed life keeps His precepts diligently, has its ways directed to keep His statutes, has respect unto all His commandments, learns His righteous judgments, and can praise Him with an upright heart without shame. Those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with the whole heart live without iniquity and walk in His ways, belonging to the blessedness of the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord.
It keeps His law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments and righteous judgments with the whole heart, diligently and continually forever and ever. It seeks Him, delights in and loves His commandments, meditates in His statutes all the day, hopes in His judgments, speaks His testimonies before kings without shame, and walks at liberty. Studying His Word enlarges the heart to run in the way of His commandments, gives a lamp to the feet and a light to the path, and lays down principles of righteousness that clearly define the difference between right and wrong and between truth and error, to be kept and loved exceedingly. Thereby the obedient are made wiser than enemies, teachers and ancients, and this is the language of every truly obedient and sanctified heart. The verse describes the faithful as those who obey God's law and remain loyal to it even when that law is treated with contempt.
Obedience in Doctrine and Life
Doing no iniquity by walking in His ways belongs to the covenant of grace and comes from receiving Christ, who gives power to become God's children, with the assurance that God will lead all who unite to do His will. Bitterness toward the law of Jehovah and enmity with it follows Satan, who first brought sin into the world and led angels, the world, and much of the professed church into apostasy by misrepresenting God's law. Numbers cannot make sin anything but transgression of God's law, and every character must be brought to the test of doing righteousness. The sacredness of God's law means a life walked in God's ways is kept from sin, and joined with Psalm 126 and Psalm 127 it declares that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly interfere, slow to anger and great in power yet refusing to acquit the wicked.
Jesus lived differently from those around Him because He followed God's ways, and His choice not to join the other young people's frolics is the example of living by God's word and ways. The verse therefore calls young people to desire and follow the Lord's way, keeping His ways in obedience to Him. It presents obedience to God's ways as the answer to pressure to follow the conduct of others.
Obedience to the law is not a restriction on liberty but a good service, for the law is perfect to convert the soul. Those who follow His principles keep His commandments as a delight and a continuing commitment, willingly and cheerfully, making their walk a way of happiness and praise to God, with love for the law as daily meditation. Learning His righteous judgments calls for a decided testimony in every line, in features, in temper, in words, and in character, with positive words for the Lord and no evil report by sadness of countenance or ill-advised words.