Psalms 119:71 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Psalms 119:71 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:10-11
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. …
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Psalms 94:12-13
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; …
Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

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Afflictions and Adversities Commandments Education Instruction Law Learning Object Teaching Parents

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 71)

See here, 1. That it has been the lot of the best saints to be afflicted. The proud and the wicked lived in pomp and pleasure, while David, though he kept close to God and his duty, was still in affliction. Waters of a full cup are wrung out to God’s people, Ps. 73:10. 2. That it has been the advantage of God’s people to be afflicted. David could speak experimentally: It was good for me; many a go…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 71)

71-72. So also affliction of any kind acts as a wholesome discipline in leading the pious more highly to value the truth and promises of God. JOD. (Psa 119:73-80).