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 Precepts; I will not forget Your Word.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

He trusted on Jehovah; let Him deliver Him; let Him rescue Him, since He delights in Him!

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

You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joys. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Delight yourself also in Jehovah, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.

I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart.

But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night.

Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in His Commandments.

And Hannah prayed and said, My heart rejoices in Jehovah, my horn is exalted in Jehovah. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation.

Then he said to them, Go eat the fat and drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our LORD. And do not be sorry, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.

And they took strong cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance. And they ate and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.

Taste and see that Jehovah is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.

then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah; and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed yourself with the inheritance of Jacob your father. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

Cause me to walk in the path of Your Commandments; for I delight in them.

I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

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

Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.

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

He delights not in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

So says Jehovah to this people; So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore Jehovah does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

even I was a workman at His side; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him;rejoicing in the world, His earth; and my delight was 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 keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

And I will delight myself in Your Commandments, which I have loved.

I have taken Your testimonies as an inheritance forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

And 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 Precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the Commandments of Jehovah are pure, giving light to the eyes.

The steps of a good man are ordered by Jehovah; and He delights in his way.

whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.

You are my hiding-place and my shield; I hope in Your Word.

For You, Jehovah, have made Me glad with Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands.

Worship Jehovah with gladness; come before His presence with singing.

For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Jehovah your God is mighty in your midst; He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love; He rejoices over you with joyful shout.

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

Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, you righteous; and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

This is the day which Jehovah 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 on my bed and think of 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.And with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.

yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we trust in His holy name.

I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds great spoil.

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

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

I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have looked on my affliction; You have known my soul in troubles;

Rejoice in Jehovah, righteous ones; and give thanks at the memory of His holiness.

Glory and honor are in His presence, strength and gladness in His place.

For You have made him most blessed forever; You have rejoiced him in the gladness in Your holy face.

Yea, in the way of Your judgments, O Jehovah, we awaited You; for Your name and for Your memory is the desire of our soul.

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

Rejoice evermore.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 Jehovah; it shall rejoice in His salvation.

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound; they shall walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your face.In Your name they shall rejoice all the day; and in Your righteousness they shall be lifted up.

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 advisers.

My thoughts of Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in Jehovah.

How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth!

My soul has kept Your testimonies; and I love them very much.

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

rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing in prayer,

But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Jehovah 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.

Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

For He satisfies the thirsty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good.

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

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

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Your Commandments are my delight.

Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose help is in Jehovah his God,

Blessed are the peoples who are so; blessed are the peoples to whom Jehovah is their God.

Jehovah reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad.

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

Their heart is without feeling, like fat; but I delight in Your Law.

A merry heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will rejoice in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying be heard in her.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth, and have clothed me with gladness,

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

You revealed to Me the ways of life. You will fill Me with joy with Your countenance."

For Jehovah 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 Jehovah. Joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

They shall be 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 whoever trusts in Jehovah, happy is he.

Great things did Jehovah to work with us and we are glad.

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yea, on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.

Let Your tender mercies come to me so that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.

I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah; and Your Law is my delight.

But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the overflowing 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 have multiplied the nation. You have not increased the joy. They rejoice before You according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

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

Satisfy us early with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah; for great is the glory of Jehovah.

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

Blessed is the one whom You choose, and cause to come near You. He shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, of Your holy temple.

Oh come, let us sing to Jehovah; 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.

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.And you also rejoice in the same, and rejoice with me.

Glory in His holy name, let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice.

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.

Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumbling block for them.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

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