Psalms 1:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 1:8 : 8 Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.
  • Ps 119:35 : 35 Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,
  • Ps 119:15-16 : 15 I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways. 16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
  • Ps 119:97-99 : 97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day. 98 Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever. 99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
  • 1 Tim 4:15 : 15 Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love. 48 And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
  • Ps 104:34 : 34 Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
  • Ps 88:1 : 1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

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    1Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

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    31The law of his God is in his heart; he will never make a false step.

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    34Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

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    22In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

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    8My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

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