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Psalms 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A worshipper addresses the LORD directly in a psalm of prayer, positioned between a promise of inheritance (v. 13) and a declaration of watchful dependence (v. 15). The speaker is not requesting information but stating a truth about how God relates to those who revere Him.
The words — ס֣וֹד (sod) carries the sense of confidential counsel, something disclosed privately rather than announced publicly; it frames the divine-human relationship as one of trusted disclosure.
The thread — John 15:15 draws the same line: servants are not told what the master is doing, but friends are; John 7:17 ties knowing God's teaching to the desire to do His will, not to intellectual capacity.
Why it lands — The verse makes the disclosure conditional on fear (reverence), not on cleverness or status; it asks the reader to recognize that knowing God's covenant is a relational posture, not an achievement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Cross-references
- John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
- John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 7:17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
- Ephesians 1:9 And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
- Ephesians 1:18 I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
- Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- John 17:6 I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
- Deuteronomy 4:13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.