Psalm 1:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Rather, the law of the Lord is his joy; and on his law he meditates day and night.

Cross References

Joshua 1:8

Do not let this book of the law depart from your lips. Recite it by day and by night, that you may carefully observe all that is written in it; then you will attain your goal; then you will succeed.

Psalm 119:92

Had your law not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalm 119:11

In my heart I treasure your promise, that I may not sin against you.

Romans 7:22

For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self,

Jeremiah 15:16

When I found your words, I devoured them; your words were my joy, the happiness of my heart, Because I bear your name, Lord, God of hosts.

Psalm 119:35

Lead me in the path of your commandments, for that is my delight.

Psalm 112:1

Hallelujah! Blessed the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commands.

Psalm 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to him; I will rejoice in the Lord.

Psalm 40:8

so I said, “See; I come with an inscribed scroll written upon me.

Psalm 119:1

Blessed those whose way is blameless, who walk by the law of the Lord.

1 John 5:3

For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

Job 23:12

From the commands of his lips I have not departed; the words of his mouth I have treasured in my heart.

1 Timothy 4:15

Be diligent in these matters, be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident to everyone.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is more precious to me than heaps of silver and gold.

Luke 2:37

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.

2 Timothy 1:3

I am grateful to God, whom I worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You recall, brothers, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Luke 18:7

Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them?

Psalm 88:1

A song; a psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; according to Mahalath. For singing; a maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

Genesis 24:63

One day toward evening he went out to walk in the field, and caught sight of camels approaching.

Ezra 7:10

Ezra had set his heart on the study and practice of the law of the Lord and on teaching statutes and ordinances in Israel. The Decree of Artaxerxes.