Psalm 40:8

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalm 112:1

PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who fears (reveres and worships) the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments. [Deut. 10:12.]

Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Psalm 119:24

Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

Psalm 119:47

For I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love.

Psalm 119:92

Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Proverbs 3:1

MY SON, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them; and Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says the Lord, I will put My law within them, and on their hearts will I write it; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, My food (nourishment) is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work.

Romans 7:22

For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self [with my new nature]. [Ps. 1:2.]

Romans 8:29

For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.

2 Corinthians 3:3

You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. [Exod. 24:12; 31:18; 32:15, 16; Jer. 31:33.]