Psalms 40:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

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    6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

    7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

  • Heb 10:6-9
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    6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

    7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

    8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

    9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

  • Rom 7:22
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    22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

  • Ps 119:47
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    47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

  • Ps 40:9-10
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    9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

    10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

  • Ps 119:174
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    174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

  • Ps 119:34-35
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    34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

    35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

  • Ps 119:16
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    16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

  • Ps 119:69-70
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    69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

    70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

  • Ps 119:77
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    77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

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    4Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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    142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

    143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

  • Ps 119:10-11
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    10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

    11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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    16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

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    112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

  • Ps 119:97
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    97MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

  • Isa 42:21
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    21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

  • Ps 143:10
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    10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

  • Ps 43:4
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    4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

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    40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

  • Heb 8:10
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    10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

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    7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

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    2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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    26But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

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    3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

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    127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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    20He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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    108Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

  • 1 Chr 29:17
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    17I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

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    34My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

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    45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

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    1O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

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    7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

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    1I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

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    14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

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    24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

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    31The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

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    19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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    12I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.