Psalm 40:8

New American Standard Bible 2020

“I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart.”

Cross References

Job 23:12

“I have not failed the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Blessed is a person who fears the Lord, Who greatly delights in His commandments.

Psalm 119:16

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

Psalm 119:24

Your testimonies also are my delight; They are my advisers.

Psalm 119:47

I will delight in Your commandments, Which I love.

Psalm 119:92

If Your Law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my misery.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, But have your heart comply with my commandments;

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became a joy to me and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, Lord God of armies.

Jeremiah 31:33

“For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; 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 accomplish His work.

Romans 7:22

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in the inner person,

Romans 8:29

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

2 Corinthians 3:3

revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.