Psalms 1:2

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Instead, his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law, he meditates day and night.

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  • Josh 1:8 : 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
  • Ps 119:35 : 35 Lead me in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden Your word in my heart so that I might not sin against You.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If Your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD and greatly delights in His commandments.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
  • Ps 119:15-16 : 15 I will meditate on Your precepts and fix my eyes on Your ways. 16 I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Ps 119:97-99 : 97 Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all day long. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them. Your word became to me the joy and delight of my heart, for I am called by Your name, LORD God of Hosts.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
  • 1 Tim 4:15 : 15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that your progress may be evident to all.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 I delight in Your commandments, which I love. 48 I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 Your law is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
  • Ps 104:34 : 34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay in helping them?
  • Ps 88:1 : 1 A song, a psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief musician. According to Mahalath Leannoth, a contemplative poem of Heman the Ezrahite.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.

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    34May my meditation be pleasing to Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.

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    97Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all day long.

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