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 thy statutes; I will not forget thy words.

Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O Lord God of the hosts.

Turn him over to the Lord, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.

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

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; in thy 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 saving health; he has surrounded me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom he has arrayed me, and as a bride made up of his jewels.

In the same manner delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart.

I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my bowels.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night.

¶ Halelu-JAH. 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 have rejoiced in thy saving health.

Then he said unto them, Go, eat the fat, and drink sweet wine, and send portions unto those who have nothing prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord, and not sad; 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 enquire in his temple.

And they took strong cities and fertile land and inherited houses full of all goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards and oliveyards and many trees of good fruit; so they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that shall trust in him.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and cause thee to eat of the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

¶ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

¶ Unless thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.

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

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; nor does he take pleasure in the legs of a man.

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

¶ Thus hath the Lord said unto this people, Thus have they loved to move, nor have they refrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not have them in his will; he will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

I was with him ordering everything; I was his delight every day, being content before him at all times;I am content in the circumference of his earth, and my contentment is with the sons of men.

Who is a God like unto thee that pardons iniquity, and passes over the rebellion with the remnant of his heritage? He did not retain his anger for ever because he delights in mercy.

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

¶ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

¶ And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue 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, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

These things I have spoken unto you that my joy may abide in you and that your joy might be fulfilled.

¶ Thou art my hiding place and my shield; I have waited for thy word.

For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work; I will delight in the works of thy hands.

Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with joy.

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he will beautify the humble with saving health.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as above all riches.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye 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 thee with joyful lipsWhen I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Behold, O God my saving health, I will trust and not be afraid for JAH, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he also is become saving health unto me.Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of saving health.

yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in the God of my saving health.

Therefore our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in the name of his holiness.

¶ I rejoice at thy spoken word, as one that finds great spoil.

And not only this, but we even glory in God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

¶ It remains, my brethren, that ye rejoice in the Lord. It does not bother me to write the same things to you, and for you it is safe.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy, for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities

Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

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

For thou hast made him most blessed for ever; thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we wait for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee.

¶ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, O God.

¶ Always rejoice.Pray without ceasing.In every thing 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 saving health.

for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Notwithstanding, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

¶ Happy are the people that know how to enter into joy; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.In thy name shall they rejoice each day; and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

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

¶ For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellors.

My meditation of him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the Lord.

¶ How sweet have been thy spoken words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¶ My soul has kept thy testimonies, and I have loved them exceedingly.

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

rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

But the fruit of the Spirit is this: Charity, joy, peace, tolerance, 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 I will praise him.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.

For he satisfies the soul that is destitute and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee and my soul, which thou hast ransomed.

And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be fulfilled.

¶ Trouble and anguish found me; but thy commandments were my delights.

¶ Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God;

Blessed is that people, that is in such a case; yea, blessed is that people, whose God is the Lord.

¶ The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

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

Their heart became fat like grease, but I delight in thy law.

¶ A joyful heart makes a beautiful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is abated.

But ye shall be glad and rejoice from age to age in the things which I shall create; for, behold, I create joy unto Jerusalem and unto her people joy.And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness;

The thief comes not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy the sheep; I am come that they might have life and that they might have it in abundance.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

For the Lord shall surely 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 singing.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith,

¶ He who has understanding in the word shall find good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

The Lord has done great things with us, of which we shall be glad.

Then I will enter in to the altar of God, unto the God of my exceeding joy; yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

Let thy mercy come unto me, that I may live, for thy law is my delight.

I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord, and thy 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 Saving Health,

¶ Because thy mercy is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

As thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee as they rejoice in the harvest and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

¶ Blessed is the man that has found wisdom and who brings to light intelligence,

O satisfy us early with thy mercy, and we shall sing and be glad all our days.

¶ Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy 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 thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

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

¶ O come, let us bring joy unto the Lord; let us sing with joy unto the rock of our saving health.Forty years long I was grieved with this generation and said, It is a people that err from the heart, who have not known my ways;unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and sing unto him with joy.

And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.For the same cause ye also have joy and rejoice with me.

Glory in his holy name; let the heart of those that seek the Lord rejoice.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

¶ Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing shall cause them to stumble.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.

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