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%

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

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

  • Heb 10:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

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

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

    8Previously 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),

    9then 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%

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

  • Ps 119:47
    78%

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

  • Ps 40:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

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

    10I 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%

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

  • Ps 119:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Ps 119:16
    75%

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

  • Ps 119:69-70
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Ps 119:77
    74%

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

  • Ps 37:4
    73%

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

  • Ps 119:142-143
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

    11I 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%

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

  • Ps 119:97
    71%

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

  • Isa 42:21
    71%

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

  • Ps 143:10
    71%

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

  • Ps 43:4
    71%

    4Then 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%

    40Behold, 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
    70%

    7My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

  • Ps 45:1
    70%

    1My 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
    70%

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

  • 2 Sam 15:26
    70%

    26but 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%

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

  • Ps 119:127
    70%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:20
    70%

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

  • Ps 26:8
    70%

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

  • Ps 119:108
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 29:17
    70%

    17I 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%

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

  • Ps 119:45
    69%

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

  • Ps 108:1
    69%

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

  • Ps 119:7
    69%

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

  • Ps 18:1
    69%

    1I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

  • Ps 119:14
    69%

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

  • Ps 119:24
    69%

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

  • Ps 37:31
    69%

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

  • Ps 18:19
    69%

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

  • Ps 86:12
    69%

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