Psalms 19:8

American Standard Version (1901)

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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  • Ps 12:6 : 6 The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts concerning all [things] to be right; [And] I hate every false way.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp; And the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes, That I be not put to shame.
  • Ps 119:14 : 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, As much as in all riches.
  • Prov 30:5 : 5 Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
  • Rom 7:12-14 : 12 So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith; 12 and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.
  • Isa 64:5 : 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
  • Rom 2:17-20 : 17 But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, 18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The opening of thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the simple.
  • Ps 119:143 : 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet] thy commandments are my delight.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 Let my lips utter praise; For thou teachest me thy statutes.
  • Prov 2:6 : 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight [And] my counsellors.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness.
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:121 : 121 AYIN. I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors.
  • Ps 13:3 : 3 Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • Ps 105:45 : 45 That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.
  • Ps 119:12 : 12 Blessed art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes.
  • Gen 26:5 : 5 because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
  • Exod 18:16 : 16 when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
  • Deut 4:5-6 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
  • Deut 12:11-12 : 11 then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah. 12 And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
  • Neh 8:12 : 12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

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    12So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

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