Psalm 40:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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 treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.

Psalm 119:16

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Psalm 119:24

Your decrees are my delight, they are my counselors.

Psalm 119:47

I find my delight in your commandments, because I love them.

Psalm 119:92

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my misery.

Proverbs 3:1

My child, 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 words became to me a joy and the delight 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 within them, and I will 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 complete his work.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,

Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

2 Corinthians 3:3

and you show that you are a 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 tablets of human hearts.