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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 119:36 Catholic Bible: Give me the desire to obey your laws rather than to get rich. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/psalms/119-36.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/psalms/119-36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/119-36.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/1.htm">Psalms</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/119.htm">Chapter 119</a> > Verse 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/119-35.htm" title="Psalm 119:35">◄</a> Psalm 119:36 {118:36} <a href="../psalms/119-37.htm" title="Psalm 119:37">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/psalms/119.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/psalms/119.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Give me the desire to obey your laws rather than to get rich. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/119.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Turn my heart to your decrees, and not to selfish gain.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/psalms/119.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Make me want to obey you, rather than to be rich. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/119.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Direct my heart toward your testimonies and away from gain. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/psalms/119.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.</p><p class="hdg">incline</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/51-10.htm">Psalm 51:10</a> Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/141-4.htm">Psalm 141:4</a> Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/8-58.htm">1 Kings 8:58</a> But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/32-39.htm">Jeremiah 32:39</a> And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days: and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/11-19.htm">Ezekiel 11:19,20</a> And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: . . . </p><p class="hdg">and not to</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/10-3.htm">Psalm 10:3</a> For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/18-21.htm">Exodus 18:21</a> And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-31.htm">Ezekiel 33:31</a> And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/2-9.htm">Habakkuk 2:9</a> Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21,22</a> For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/12-15.htm">Luke 12:15</a> And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/16-14.htm">Luke 16:14</a> Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-3.htm">Ephesians 5:3</a> But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a> Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9,10,17</a> For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/13-5.htm">Hebrews 13:5</a> Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/2-3.htm">2 Peter 2:3,14</a> And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/psalms/119.htm">Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">35</span>Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired. <span class="reftext">36</span><span class="highl">Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.</span><span class="reftext">37</span>Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21</a></span><br />For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/7-22.htm">Mark 7:22</a></span><br />Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/12-15.htm">Luke 12:15</a></span><br />And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/13-5.htm">Hebrews 13:5</a></span><br />Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../joshua/24-23.htm">Joshua 24:23</a></span><br />Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/8-58.htm">1 Kings 8:58</a></span><br />But may he incline our hearts to himself, that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/119-112.htm">Psalm 119:112</a></span><br />I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/141-4.htm">Psalm 141:4</a></span><br />Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-31.htm">Ezekiel 33:31</a></span><br />And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/18-21.htm">Covetousness</a> <a href="/psalms/119-20.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/1_samuel/8-3.htm">Dishonest</a> <a href="/psalms/119-23.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/psalms/108-13.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/psalms/119-34.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/psalms/102-2.htm">Incline</a> <a href="/james/3-16.htm">Selfish</a> <a href="/psalms/119-33.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/psalms/119-31.htm">Testimonies</a> <a href="/psalms/119-29.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/psalms/116-2.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/psalms/119-31.htm">Unchanging</a> <a href="/psalms/119-31.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/28-16.htm">Covetousness</a> <a href="/psalms/119-40.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-19.htm">Dishonest</a> <a href="/psalms/119-86.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/psalms/119-104.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/psalms/119-38.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/psalms/119-112.htm">Incline</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-1.htm">Selfish</a> <a href="/psalms/119-46.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/psalms/119-46.htm">Testimonies</a> <a href="/psalms/119-37.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/psalms/119-37.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/psalms/119-46.htm">Unchanging</a> <a href="/psalms/119-37.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/psalms/119-36.htm">Psalm 119:36 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: {dishonest} and gain heart Incline my not selfish statutes testimonies to toward Turn your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/psalms/119-36.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 119:36 Turn my heart toward your statutes not (Psalm Ps Psa.) 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