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 shall bethink in thy justifyings; I shall not forget thy words.

Thy words be found, and I ate those [or them]; and thy word was made to me into joy, and into gladness of mine heart; for thy name, Lord God of hosts, is called to help on me.

He hoped in the Lord, deliver he him; make he him safe, for he will or delights in him.

Joy ye in the Lord evermore; again I say, joy ye.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt [full-]fill me with gladness with thy cheer; delight-ings be in thy right half unto the end.

I joying shall have joy in the Lord, and my soul shall make full out joying in my God. For he hath clothed me with [the] clothes of health, and he hath compassed me with [the] clothes of rightfulness [or rightwiseness], as a spouse made fair with a crown, and as a spousess adorned with her brooches.

Delight thou in the Lord; and he shall give to thee the askings of thine heart.

that I should do thy will; my God, I would also to do it; and thy law in the midst of mine heart.

But his will is in the law of the Lord; and he shall bethink in the law of him day and night.

Alleluia. Blessed is the man that dreadeth the Lord; he shall delight full much in his commandments.

And Hannah worshipped, and said, Mine heart fully joyed in the Lord, and mine horn is raised in my God; my mouth is alarged on mine enemies, for I was glad in thine health.

And he said to them, Go ye, and eat ye fat things, and drink ye wine made sweet with honey, and send ye parts to them, that made not ready to themselves, for it is an holy day of the Lord; do not ye be sorry, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

I asked of the Lord one thing; I shall seek this thing; that I dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I see the will of the Lord; and that I visit his temple.

And they took cities made strong, and fat earth; and they had in possession houses full of all goods, cisterns made of other men, vineries [or vines], and places of olives, and many apple trees. And they ate, and were fulfilled, and were made fat; and had plenty of riches in thy great goodness.

Taste ye, and see, for the Lord is sweet; blessed is the man, that hopeth in him.

then thou shalt delight on the Lord, and I shall raise thee [up] on the highness of the earth, and I shall feed thee with the heritage of Jacob, thy father; for why the mouth of the Lord spake.

Lead me forth in the path of thy behests; for I would or delight in it.

Thou Highest, I shall be glad, and I shall be fully joyful [or full out joy] in thee; I shall sing to thy name.

Then on Almighty God thou shalt flow with delights; and thou shalt raise up thy face to God.

But for thy law was my thinking; then peradventure I had perished in my lowness.

After the multitude of my sorrows in mine heart; thy comforts made glad my soul.

He shall not have will in the strength of an horse; neither it shall be well pleasant [or well pleased] to him in the legs of a man.

Why weigh ye silver, and not in loaves, and your travail, not in fullness? Ye hearing hear me, and eat ye good things, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

The Lord saith these things to this people, that loved to stir his feet, and rested not, and pleased not the Lord; now he shall have mind on the wickednesses of them, and he shall visit the sins of them.

I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,

and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.

God, who is like thee, that doest away wickedness, and bearest over the sin of the remnants of thine heritage? He shall no more send in his strong vengeance, for he is willing or desiring mercy;

And I bethought in thy behests; which I loved.

I purchased thy witnessings by heritage without end; for those [or they] be the full [out] joying of mine heart.

And God of hope full-fill you in all joy and peace in believing, that ye increase [or abound] in hope and virtue of the Holy Ghost.

The rightfulnesses of the Lord be rightful, gladdening hearts; the com-mandment of the Lord is clear, en-lightening eyes.

The goings of a man shall be dressed with the Lord; and he shall delight in his way.

Whom when ye have not seen, ye love; into whom also now ye not seeing, believe; but ye that believe shall have joy, and gladness that may not be told out, and ye shall be glorified,

These things I spake to you, that my joy be in you, and your joy be full-filled.

Thou art mine helper, and mine up-taker; and I hoped more in thy word.

For thou, Lord, hast delighted me in the works of thy making; and I shall make full out joy in the works of thine hands.

serve ye the Lord in gladness. Enter ye in his sight in full out joying.

For the Lord is well pleased in his people; and he hath raised mild men into health.

Thy Lord God is strong in the middle of thee, he shall save [thee]; he shall make joy on thee in gladness, he shall be still in thy loving, he shall make joy withoutforth on thee in praising.

I delighted in the way of thy witnessings; as in all riches.

Ye just [or rightwise] men, be glad, and make fully joy in the Lord; and all ye rightful of heart, have glory.

This is the day which the Lord made; make we full out joy, and be we glad therein.

My soul be [ful] filled as with inner fatness and uttermore fatness; and my mouth shall praise with lips of full out joying.

So I had mind on thee on my bed, in the morrowtides I shall think of thee;

Lo! God is my saviour, I shall do faithfully, and I shall not dread. For why the Lord is my strength and my praising, and he is made to me into health.

Ye shall draw waters with joy of the wells of the saviour.

Forsooth I shall have joy in the Lord, and I shall make joy without-forth in God my Jesus or my salvation.

For our heart shall be glad in him; and we shall have hope in his holy name.

I shall be glad on thy speeches; as he that findeth many spoils.

And not only this, but also we glory in God, by our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have received now reconciling.

Henceforward, my brethren, have ye joy in the Lord. To write to you the same things, to me it is not slow, and to you it is necessary.

I shall have fully joy, and shall be glad in thy mercy. For thou beheldest my meekness; thou savedest my life from needs.

Just [or rightwise] men, be ye glad in the Lord; and acknowledge ye to the mind of his hallowing.

Acknowledging and great doing be before him; strength and joy be in the place of him.

For thou shalt give him into bless-ing into the world of world; thou shalt make him glad in joy with thy cheer.

And in the way of thy dooms, Lord, we suffered thee; thy name, and thy memorial is in desire of soul.

To victory, [by the understanding], to the sons of Korah. As an hart desireth to the wells of waters; so thou, God, my soul desireth to thee.

Evermore joy ye;

without ceasing pray ye;

in all things do ye thankings. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus, in all you.

But my soul shall fully have joy in the Lord; and shall delight on his health.

For why one day in thine halls is better; than a thousand elsewhere. I choose to be abject, either an outcast, in the house of my God; more than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

Nevertheless do not ye [have] joy in this thing, that spirits be subject to you; but joy ye, that your names be written in heavens.

blessed is the people that know a hearty song. Lord, they shall go in the light of thy cheer;

and in thy name they shall make full out joy all day; and they shall be enhanced in thy rightfulness [or right-wiseness].

And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.

For why and thy witnessings is my thinking; and my counsel is thy justifyings.

My speech be merry or mirth to him; forsooth I shall delight in the Lord.

Thy speeches be full sweet to my cheeks; above honey to my mouth.

My soul kept thy witnessings; and loved those [or them] greatly.

To see in the goodness of thy chosen men, to be glad in the gladness of thy folk; that thou be praised with thine heritage.

joying in hope, patient in tribulation, busy in prayer,

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,

The Lord is mine helper and my defender; and mine heart hoped in him, and I am helped. And my flesh flowered again; and of my will I shall acknowledge to him.

Till now ye asked nothing in my name; ask ye, and ye shall take, that your joy be full.

For he [ful] filled a void man; and he filled with goods an hungry man.

My lips shall make fully joy [or full out joy], when I shall sing to thee; and my soul, which thou again-boughtest.

And we write this thing to you, that ye have joy, and that your joy be full.

Tribulation and anguish have found me; thy behests is my thinking.

He is blessed, of whom the God of Jacob is his helper; his hope is in his Lord God,

They said, The people is blessed, that hath these things; blessed is the people, whose Lord is the God of it.

The Lord hath reigned, the earth make full out joy; many isles be glad.

and again-bought of the Lord; and they shall be converted, and shall come into Zion with praising; and everlasting gladness shall be on the heads of them; they shall have joy and gladness, and sorrow and wailing shall flee away.

The heart of them is crudded, either made hard, as milk; but I be-thought on thy law.

A joyful heart maketh glad the face; the spirit is cast down in the mourning of soul.

But ye shall have joy, and make full out joying till into without end, in these things which I make; for lo! I make Jerusalem full out joying, and the people thereof joy.

And I shall make full out joying in Jerusalem, and I shall have joy in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of cry shall no more be heard therein.

Thou hast turned my wailing into joy to me; thou hast rent my sack-cloth, and hast encompassed me with gladness.

A night thief cometh not, but that he steal, slay, and lose; and I came, that they have life, and have more plenteously.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt [full]-fill me in mirth with thy face.

Therefore the Lord shall comfort Zion, and he shall comfort all the fallings thereof; and he shall set the desert thereof in delights, and the wilderness thereof as a garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, the doing of thankings and the voice of praising.

They shall be filled greatly of the plenty of thine house; and thou shalt give drink to them of the stiff stream of thy liking [or thy delight].

And I trusting this thing, know that I shall dwell, and perfectly dwell to all you, to your profit and joy of faith,

A learned man in word shall find goods; and he that hopeth in the Lord is blessed.

The Lord magnified to do with us; we be made glad.

And I shall enter to the altar of God; to God, that gladdeth my youth. God, my God, I shall acknowledge to thee in an harp;

Thy merciful doings come to me, and I shall live; for thy law is my thinking.

Lord, I coveted thine health; and thy law is my thinking.

But mild men shall inherit the land; and shall delight in the multitude of peace.

and my spirit hath gladded in God, mine health [or mine health-giver].

For thy mercy is better than lives or life itself; my lips shall praise thee.

Thou multipliedest folk, thou magnifiedest not gladness; they shall be glad before thee, as they that be glad in harvest, as overcomers make full out joy, when they have taken a prey, when they part the spoils.

Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and that floweth with prudence.

We were [ful] filled early with thy mercy; we made full out joy, and we delighted in all our days.

for thou hast been mine helper. And in the covering of thy wings I shall make full out joy,

For why the realm of God is not meat and drink, but rightwiseness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

And sing they in the ways of the Lord; for the glory of the Lord is great.

The law out of thy mouth is better to me; than thousands of gold and silver.

Blessed is he, whom thou hast chosen, and hast taken; he shall dwell in thy foreyards. We shall be [ful] filled with the goods of thine house; thy temple is holy,

Come ye, make ye full out joy to the Lord; heartily sing we to God, our health.

Forty years I was offended to this generation; and I said, Ever[more] they err in heart. And these men knew not my ways;

to whom I swore in mine ire, they shall not enter into my rest.

Before-occupy we his face in acknowledging; and heartily sing we to him in psalms.

But though I be offered or slain on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I have joy, and I thank you all.

And for the same thing have ye joy, and [together] thank ye me.

Praise ye his holy name; the heart of men seeking the Lord be glad.

my soul coveteth, and faileth into the porches of the Lord. Mine heart, and my flesh; full out joyed into quick God [or God alive].

Much peace is to them that love thy law; and no cause of stumbling is to them.

my soul, why art thou sorry, and why troublest thou me? Hope thou in God, for yet I shall acknowledge to him; that is the health of my cheer, and my God.

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