Psalm 40:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ I delight to do thy will, O my God: Yea, thy law is within my heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ I delight to do Your will, O my God; yes, Your law is within my heart. [Heb. 10:5-9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

Common English Bible

⁸ I want to do your will, my God. Your Instruction is deep within me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.

Psalm 40:8 Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not strayed from the command of His lips. I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily portion.

Psalm 112:1

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man, Who fears יהוה, Who has greatly delighted in His commands.

Psalm 119:16

I delight myself in Your laws; I do not forget Your word.

Psalm 119:24

Your witnesses also are my delight, My counsellors.

Psalm 119:47

That I might delight myself in Your commands, Which I have loved;

Psalm 119:92

If Your Torah had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my Torah, And let your heart watch over my commands;

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For Your Name is called on me, O יהוה  Elohim of hosts.

Jeremiah 31:33

“For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕ

John 4:34

יהושע  said to them, “My food is to do the desire of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man,

Romans 8:29

Because those whom He knew beforehand, He also ordained beforehand to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to be the first-born among many brothers.

2 Corinthians 3:3

making it obvious that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Elohim, not on tablets of stone but on fleshly tablets of the heart.