Psalm 40:8

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured 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

And I will delight myself in Your commandments, Which I love.

Psalm 119:92

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

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was 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 is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on 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 inward man.

Romans 8:29

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

2 Corinthians 3:3

clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.