Psalms 1:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Josh 1:8 : 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth; but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
  • Ps 119:35 : 35 Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man:
  • Ps 119:15-16 : 15 I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways. 16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Ps 119:97-99 : 97 MEM. Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 You, through Your commandments, have made 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 I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 Nor have I departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O 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 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 ALEPH. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
  • Ps 119:47-48 : 47 And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love. 48 My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, which I love; and I will meditate on Your statutes.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
  • Ps 104:34 : 34 My meditation of Him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them?
  • Ps 88:1 : 1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you;
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day;
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: for working night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 And she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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