Psalms 40:8

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Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'

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  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 I delight in Your commandments, which I love.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If Your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • 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.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous person utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; his steps will not falter.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD and greatly delights in His commandments.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 It is clear that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 40:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6You, LORD my God, have done many wonderful works, and Your plans are beyond comparison. If I tried to declare and speak of them, they are too numerous to count.

    7Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared my ears to listen; burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.

  • Heb 10:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6You were not pleased with whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin.

    7Then I said, 'Behold, I have come—it is written about Me in the scroll of the book—to do Your will, O God.'"

    8After saying above that sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins You did not desire nor were pleased with—which are offered according to the law—

    9then He said, 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He takes away the first to establish the second.

  • 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;

  • 47I delight in Your commandments, which I love.

  • Ps 40:9-10
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    76%

    9I desire to do Your will, my God; Your law is within my heart.

    10I have proclaimed Your righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, You know this.

  • 174I long for Your salvation, LORD, and Your law is my delight.

  • Ps 119:34-35
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    75%

    34Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law and observe it with all my heart.

    35Lead me in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.

  • 16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

  • Ps 119:69-70
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    74%

    69The insolent smear me with lies, but I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

    70Their heart is dull like fat, but I delight in Your law.

  • 77Let Your mercy come to me that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

  • 4Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

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    142Your righteousness is everlasting, and Your law is truth.

    143Trouble and anguish have seized me, yet Your commandments are my delight.

  • Ps 119:10-11
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    72%

    10With all my heart I seek You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

    11I have hidden Your word in my heart so that I might not sin against You.

  • 16"This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts and write them on their minds."

  • 112I have inclined my heart to keep Your statutes forever, to the very end.

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

  • 21The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to make His law great and glorious.

  • 10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

  • 4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and delight. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

  • 40Behold, I long for Your precepts; in Your righteousness give me life.

  • 10This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  • 7They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah.

  • 1To the director on lilies, a maskil of the sons of Korah, a song of love.

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    2Instead, his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on His law, he meditates day and night.

  • 26'But if He says, “I have no delight in you,” here I am—let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.'

  • 3As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

  • 127Therefore, I love Your commandments more than gold, even pure gold.

  • 20He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

  • 8Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

  • 108Accept, LORD, the freewill offerings of my mouth, and teach me Your judgments.

  • 17I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. In the uprightness of my heart, I have freely offered all these things; and now I have seen your people, who are present here, joyfully and willingly give to you.

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

  • 45I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

  • 1A song, a psalm of David.

  • 7I will praise You with an upright heart as I learn Your righteous judgments.

  • 1To the director, a song of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

  • 14I rejoice in following Your testimonies as much as in great riches.

  • 24Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.

  • 31The law of his God is in his heart; his steps will not falter.

  • 19They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

  • 12I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.