Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
⛓ Read Psalm 119 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Your word is truth' (v17) closely renders 'your law is truth' (Ps 119:142) and 'the sum of your word is truth' (119:160). Near-verbal correspondence gives high Volume; the equation of God's word with truth is the precise scriptural ground for the petition.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Your law is truth' and the psalm's sustained praise of the commandments as righteous and good lie behind Paul's vindication of the commandment as 'holy and righteous and good' (7:12).
Low confidence