Verse 8

Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 12:6 : 6 The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF
  • Ps 119:14 : 14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
  • Prov 30:5 : 5 "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
  • Rom 7:12-14 : 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 "You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
  • Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." 12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them." 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
  • Isa 64:5 : 5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?
  • 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.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • Rom 2:17-20 : 17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, 18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
  • Ps 119:143 : 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.
  • Prov 2:6 : 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
  • Ps 119:121 : 121 I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me to my oppressors.
  • Ps 13:3 : 3 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
  • Ps 105:45 : 45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
  • Ps 119:12 : 12 Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
  • Gen 26:5 : 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
  • Exod 18:16 : 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."
  • Deut 4:5-6 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
  • Deut 12:11-12 : 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh. 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
  • Neh 8:12 : 12 All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.