Psalms 40:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.””
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BSBPD
“I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law <FI>is<Fi> within my heart.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 40:8 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
- Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
- Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Psalms 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
- Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
- Psalms 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
- Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
- Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- Romans 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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