Psalms 40:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 4:34 : 34 Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shall be the couenant that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawe in their inward partes, and write it in their hearts, and wil be their God, and they shalbe my people.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 And my delite shalbe in thy commaundements, which I haue loued.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Except thy Lawe had bene my delite, I should now haue perished in mine affliction.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Thy wordes were founde by me, and I did eate them, and thy worde was vnto me the ioy and reioycing of mine heart: for thy Name is called vpon me, O Lord God of hostes.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delite in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy worde.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement. 31 For the Lawe of his God is in his heart, and his steppes shall not slide.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Prayse ye the Lord. Blessed is the man, that feareth the Lord, and deliteth greatly in his commandements.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

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    6 Sacrifice & offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required.

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  • Heb 10:6-9
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    6 In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure.

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    8 Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe)

    9 Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second.

  • Rom 7:22
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    22 For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:

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    47 And my delite shalbe in thy commaundements, which I haue loued.

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    9 I haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great Congregation: loe, I will not refraine my lippes: O Lord, thou knowest.

    10 I haue not hidde thy righteousnesse within mine heart, but I haue declared thy trueth and thy saluation: I haue not conceiled thy mercy and thy trueth from the great Congregation.

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    174 I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lorde, and thy Lawe is my delite.

  • Ps 119:34-35
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    34 Giue mee vnderstanding, and I will keepe thy Law: yea, I wil keepe it with my whole heart.

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    16 I will delite in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy worde.

  • Ps 119:69-70
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    69 The proud haue imagined a lie against me: but I wil keepe thy precepts with my whole heart.

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    77 Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy Lawe is my delite.

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    4 And delite thy selfe in the Lorde, and hee shall giue thee thine hearts desire.

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    142 Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnes, and thy Lawe is trueth.

    143 Trouble and anguish are come vpon me: yet are thy commandements my delite.

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    10 With my whole heart haue I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandements.

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    16 This is the Testament that I will make vnto them after those dayes, sayth the Lord, I wil put my Lawes in their heart, and in their mindes I will write them.

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    112 I haue applied mine heart to fulfill thy statutes always, euen vnto the ende.

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    97 Mem. Oh howe loue I thy Lawe! it is my meditation continually.

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    21 The Lorde is willing for his righteousnesse sake that he may magnifie the Lawe, and exalt it.

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    26 But if he thus say, I haue no delite in thee, behold, here am I, let him doe to me as seemeth good in his eyes.

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