108 Bible verses about Delighting in the Lord

Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." Think about what it really means to delight in something. It's about experiencing deep happiness and satisfaction in what brings you true joy. And the Bible teaches us that true joy is only found in God.

When you delight in God, it puts everything else into perspective. Your worries and struggles become smaller because you recognize that He's ultimately in control. It strengthens your relationship with Him, draws you closer to His presence, and helps you trust His promises completely.

Delighting in God also cultivates an attitude of gratitude. You start to see all the good things in your life as blessings from His love and care. It doesn't mean ignoring your responsibilities or pretending challenges don't exist. Instead, it's about finding the strength and wisdom in Him to face them with confidence and a positive outlook.

Truly, delighting in God leads to a full and meaningful life. It's where you'll find genuine satisfaction and discover the purpose He has for you. So, in the midst of all the demands and distractions of this world, remember that only in God will you find the delight your heart truly longs for.

I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.

Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.

He trusted in the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Delight yourself also in the LORD; and he shall give you the desires of your heart.

I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law he meditates day and night.

Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.

And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, my horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies; because I rejoice in your salvation.

Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink sweet drinks, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells dug, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.

Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.

I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O thou most High.

For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God.

Unless your law had been my delights, I would then have perished in my affliction.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.

He does not delight in the strength of the horse: he does not take pleasure in the legs of a man.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which does not satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Thus says the LORD to this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet, therefore the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he does not retain his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy.

And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.

Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.

Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands.

Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

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

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:

When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also has become my salvation.

Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not burdensome, but for you it is safe.

I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Glory and honor are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

For you have made him most blessed for ever: you have made him exceedingly glad with your countenance.

Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is for your name, and for the remembrance of you.

​As the deer pants for the brooks of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

Rejoice at all times.

Pray without ceasing.

In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.

In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.

And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

How sweet are your words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

That I may see the good of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.

Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.

And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.

Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad for it.

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.

A merry heart makes a cheerful appearance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

You have turned for me my mourning into singing: you have put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness;

The thief does not come, except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your presence.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your advancement and joy of faith;

He who handles a matter wisely shall find good: and he who trusts in the LORD, happy is he.

The LORD has done great things for us; for which we are glad.

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.

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

I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

You multiplied the nation, and did not increase the joy: but now they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding.

O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach unto you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.

O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Yes, and if I am offered in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I have joy, and rejoice with you all.

For the same reason also do you have joy, and rejoice with me.

Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Great peace have those that love your law: and nothing shall offend them.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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