alternatives. That is what counseling involves. That is why counselors who want to help counselees must come to know and learn to use the Bible well. 4 You have commanded us to carefully keep your precepts. The word precepts, occurring 21 times in the Psalm, means “mandates handed down to be observed.” When God mandates something, He doesn’t do so for His own benefit but for ours. We should listen to what He requires and do as He says. He expects His precepts, mandates, to be observed. But there
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