Psalm 40:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ Then I said: “Here I am, I have come— in the scroll of a book it is written about me.

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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 departed from the commands of His lips. I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Psalm 112:1

Halleluyah! Happy is the man who fears Adonai, who delights greatly in His mitzvot.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight in Your decrees. I will never forget Your word.

Psalm 119:24

For Your testimonies are my delight— they are also my counselors.

Psalm 119:47

I delight in Your mitzvot, which I love.

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 teaching, but let your heart keep my mitzvot.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, so I ate them. Your words were a delight to me and the joy of my heart. For I am called by Your Name, Adonai-Elohei-Tzva’ot.

Jeremiah 31:33

No longer will each teach his neighbor or each his brother, saying: ‘Know Adonai,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.” it is a declaration of Adonai. “For I will forgive their iniquity, their sin I will remember no more.”

John 4:34

Yeshua tells them, “My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the Torah of God with respect to the inner man,

Romans 8:29

For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

2 Corinthians 3:3

It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah delivered by us—written not with ink but with the Ruach of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.