Psalms 40:8
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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6 ¶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,
- Heb 10:6-94 verses81%
6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 ¶ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above 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;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
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47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
- Ps 40:9-102 verses76%
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I 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.
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174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.
- Ps 119:34-352 verses75%
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.
35 ¶ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
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16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Ps 119:69-702 verses74%
69 ¶ The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
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77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight.
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4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
- Ps 119:142-1432 verses73%
142 ¶ Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.
143 ¶ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.
- Ps 119:10-112 verses72%
10 ¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11 ¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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16 This [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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112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, [even unto] the end.
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97 ¶ MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
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21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.
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10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
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4 Then 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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40 ¶ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
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10 For 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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7 ¶ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
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1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
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2 But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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26 But 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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3 [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
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127 ¶ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
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20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
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108 ¶ Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
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17 I 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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34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
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45 ¶ And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
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1 ¶ A Song [or] Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
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7 ¶ I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
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1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
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14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.
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24 ¶ Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.
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31 The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
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19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.