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 find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions. ג (Gimel)

As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.

They say, “Commit yourself to the Lord! Let the Lord rescue him! Let the Lord deliver him, for he delights in him.”

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; I will be overjoyed because of my God. For he clothes me in garments of deliverance; he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would; I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry.

Then you will take delight in the Lord, and he will answer your prayers.

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.

Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.

Hannah prayed, “My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted high because of the Lord. I loudly denounce my enemies, for I am happy that you delivered me.

He said to them, “Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the lord is your strength.”

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

Taste and see that the Lord is good! How blessed is the onewho takes shelter in him!

Then you will find joy in your relationship to the Lord, and I will give you great prosperity, and cause crops to grow on the land I gave to your ancestor Jacob.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.

Guide me in the path of your commands, for I delight to walk in it.

I will be happy and rejoice in you! I will sing praises to you, O sovereign One!

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.

When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.

He is not enamored with the strength of a horse, nor is he impressed by the warrior’s strong legs.

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

Then the Lord spoke about these people. “They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.”

then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.

I will find delight in your commands, which I love.

I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

The Lord grants success to the one whose behavior he finds commendable.

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

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

For you, O Lord, have made me happy by your work. I will sing for joy because of what you have done.

Worship the Lord with joy! Enter his presence with joyful singing!

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he exalts the oppressed by delivering them.

The Lord your God is in your midst; he is a warrior who can deliver. He takes great delight in you; he renews you by his love; he shouts for joy over you.”

I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly! Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright!

This is the day the Lord has brought about. We will be happy and rejoice in it.

As if with choice meat you satisfy my soul. My mouth joyfully praises you,

whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”

Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance.

I will rejoice because of the Lord; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!

For our hearts rejoice in him, for we trust in his holy name.

I rejoice in your instructions, like one who finds much plunder.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness, because you notice my pain and you are aware of how distressed I am.

You godly ones, rejoice in the Lord! Give thanks to his holy name.

Majestic splendor emanates from him, he is the source of strength and joy.

For you grant him lasting blessings; you give him great joy by allowing him into your presence.

Yes, as your judgments unfold, O Lord, we wait for you. We desire your fame and reputation to grow.

As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!

Always rejoice,

constantly pray,

in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Then I will rejoice in the Lord and be happy because of his deliverance.

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven.”

How blessed are the people who worship you! O Lord, they experience your favor.

They rejoice in your name all day long, and are vindicated by your justice.

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance. ד (Dalet)

May my thoughts be pleasing to him! I will rejoice in the Lord.

Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!

I keep your rules; I love them greatly.

so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

The Lord strengthens and protects me; I trust in him with all my heart. I am rescued and my heart is full of joy; I will sing to him in gratitude.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.

My lips will shout for joy! Yes, I will sing your praises! I will praise you when you rescue me!

Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.

How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

The Lord reigns! Let the earth be happy! Let the many coastlands rejoice!

those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. They will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.

Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

A joyful heart makes the face cheerful, but by a painful heart the spirit is broken.

But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.

Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again.

Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’

Certainly the Lord will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the Lord. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

And since I am sure of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith,

The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.

The Lord did indeed accomplish great things for us. We were happy.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.

May I experience your compassion, so I might live! For I find delight in your law.

I long for your deliverance, O Lord; I find delight in your law.

But the oppressed will possess the land and enjoy great prosperity.

and my spirit has begun to rejoice in God my Savior,

Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.

You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love! Then we will shout for joy and be happy all our days!

For you are my deliverer; under your wings I rejoice.

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

Let them sing about the Lord’s deeds, for the Lord’s splendor is magnificent.

The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. י (Yod)

How blessed is the one whom you choose, and allow to live in your palace courts. May we be satisfied with the good things of your house – your holy palace.

Come! Let’s sing for joy to the Lord! Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us!

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

Let’s enter his presence with thanksgiving! Let’s shout out to him in celebration!

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.

Boast about his holy name! Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

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