1 Kings 8:61
Good News Translation
May you, his people, always be faithful to the LORD our God, obeying all his laws and commands as you do today."

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore devote yourselves completely to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”

Contemporary English Version
Obey the LORD our God and follow his commands with all your heart, just as you are doing today.

New American Bible
Your heart must be wholly devoted to the LORD, our God, observing his statutes and keeping his commandments, as on this day.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.

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1 Kings 11:4 And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

1 Kings 15:3,14 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father. . . .

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Deuteronomy 18:13 Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Job 1:1,8 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil. . . .

Psalm 37:37 Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Philippians 3:12-16 Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus. . . .

Context
Solomon's Benediction
60That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him. 61Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments, as at this day.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:13
Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.

1 Kings 11:4
And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

1 Kings 15:14
But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:

2 Kings 20:3
I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

1 Chronicles 29:9
And the people rejoiced, when they promised their offerings willingly: because they offered them to the Lord with all their heart: and David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.

1 Kings 8:60
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