Psalms 63:3
Your loyal love is worth more than life, so my lips will sing your praise.
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Communion with God ·
Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Ps. lxiii. 3
…saith the psalmist, “is better than life; therefore will I praise thee,” Ps. lxiii. 3. “Than life,” מֵחַיִּים, — before lives. I will not deny but life in a single…
- All Things for Good ·
The worst things work for good to the godly cites Psalm lxiii. 3
…saints prize God’s countenance more than ever. “Thy loving-kindness is better than life” (Psalm lxiii. 3). Yet the commonness of this mercy lessens it in our esteem. When pearls grew common at…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith cites Ps. 63:3
…of God experienced by the pious heart is sweeter and more to be desired than life itself (Ps. 63:3). In short, if we have every earthly comfort to a wish, but are uncertain whether we have…
- Lectures to My Students ·
Our Public Prayer cites Psalm lxiii. 3
…the term life is used in altogether different, and even incompatible senses, namely, Psalm lxiii. 3, 'Thy lovingkindness is better than life,' where, evidently, life means the present…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Adoption cites Psalm 63:3
…‘My soul thirsteth for thee, to see thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.’ Psalm 63:3, 2. Such as disregard ordinances are not God’s children, because they care not to be in…