Psalms 40:8

World English Bible (2000)

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

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Referenced Verses

  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 40:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

    7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

  • Heb 10:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

    7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"

    8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

    9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

  • Rom 7:22
    78%

    22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

  • Ps 119:47
    78%

    47 I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

  • Ps 40:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

    10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

  • Ps 119:174
    75%

    174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

  • Ps 119:34-35
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    75%

    34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

    35 Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

  • Ps 119:16
    75%

    16 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

  • Ps 119:69-70
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    74%

    69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

    70 Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

  • Ps 119:77
    74%

    77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

  • Ps 37:4
    73%

    4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

  • Ps 119:142-143
    2 verses
    73%

    142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

    143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

    11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • Heb 10:16
    72%

    16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

  • Ps 119:112
    71%

    112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH

  • Ps 119:97
    71%

    97 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

  • Isa 42:21
    71%

    21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

  • Ps 143:10
    71%

    10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

  • Ps 43:4
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    4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

  • Ps 119:40
    70%

    40 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

  • Heb 8:10
    70%

    10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  • Ps 57:7
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    7 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

  • Ps 45:1
    70%

    1 My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

  • Ps 1:2
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    2 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.

  • 2 Sam 15:26
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    26 but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."

  • Ps 16:3
    70%

    3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

  • Ps 119:127
    70%

    127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

  • 2 Sam 22:20
    70%

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

  • Ps 26:8
    70%

    8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

  • Ps 119:108
    70%

    108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.

  • 1 Chr 29:17
    70%

    17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.

  • Ps 104:34
    69%

    34 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

  • Ps 119:45
    69%

    45 I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

  • Ps 108:1
    69%

    1 My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

  • Ps 119:7
    69%

    7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

  • Ps 18:1
    69%

    1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

  • Ps 119:14
    69%

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

  • Ps 119:24
    69%

    24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED

  • Ps 37:31
    69%

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

  • Ps 18:19
    69%

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

  • Ps 86:12
    69%

    12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forevermore.