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 have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.

My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.

Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.

I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.

To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.

For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.

Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.

My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.

I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are in his holy place.

For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.

To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah. Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

Have joy at all times.Keep on with your prayers.In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.

Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;

He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

My spirit is glad in God my Saviour.

Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

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

They will make songs about 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.

Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

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