Psalm 40:8

Modern English Version

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments.

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

I will take delight in Your commandments, which I love.

Psalm 119:92

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

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found and I ate them. And Your word became to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O  Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 31:33

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

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,

Romans 8:29

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

2 Corinthians 3:3

For you are prominently declared to be the letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on human tablets of the heart.