Psalm 19:8

New English Translation

The Lord’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord’s commands are pure and give insight for life.

Cross References

Genesis 26:5

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

2 Kings 17:37

You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

Nehemiah 8:12

So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food with others and to enjoy tremendous joy, for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them.

Nehemiah 9:13

“You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Psalm 105:45

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 111:7

His acts are characterized by faithfulness and justice; all his precepts are reliable.

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.

Psalm 119:12

You deserve praise, O Lord! Teach me your statutes!

Psalm 119:121

I do what is fair and right. Do not abandon me to my oppressors!

Psalm 119:128

For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions. פ (Pe)

Psalm 119:130

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.

Psalm 119:14

I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

Psalm 119:143

Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.

Psalm 119:16

I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions. ג (Gimel)

Psalm 119:171

May praise flow freely from my lips, for you teach me your statutes.

Psalm 119:24

Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance. ד (Dalet)

Psalm 119:40

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance! ו (Vav)

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Psalm 119:80

May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed. כ (Kaf)

Psalm 119:92

If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.

Psalm 12:6

The Lord’s words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

Psalm 13:3

Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!

Psalm 40:8

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

Psalm 93:5

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

Isaiah 64:5

You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?

Jeremiah 15:16

As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

Romans 3:20

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Romans 7:7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

Deuteronomy 16:11

You shall rejoice before him – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 16:14

You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.