Verse 8

The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 12:6 : 6 The LORD’s words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 נ(Nun) Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.
  • Ps 119:14 : 14 I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.
  • Prov 30:5 : 5 Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”
  • Rom 7:12-14 : 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
  • Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” 11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. 12 But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
  • Isa 64:5 : 5 You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
  • Rom 2:17-20 : 17 The Condemnation of the Jew But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God 18 and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, 19 and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.
  • Ps 119:143 : 143 Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 May praise flow freely from my lips, for you teach me your statutes.
  • Prov 2:6 : 6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules. 100 I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.
  • Ps 119:121 : 121 ע(Ayin) I do what is fair and right. Do not abandon me to my oppressors!
  • Ps 13:3 : 3 Look at me! Answer me, O LORD my God! Revive me, or else I will die!
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
  • Ps 105:45 : 45 so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 119:12 : 12 You deserve praise, O LORD! Teach me your statutes!
  • Gen 26:5 : 5 All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
  • Exod 18:16 : 16 When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”
  • Deut 4:5-6 : 5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess. 6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say,“Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”
  • Deut 12:11-12 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages(since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.
  • Neh 8:12 : 12 So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food with others and to enjoy tremendous joy, for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them.