Psalm 1:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.

Cross References

Genesis 24:63

Isaac went out in the evening to walk in the field, and, looking up, he saw camels coming.

Ezra 7:10

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured his words in my bosom.

Psalm 104:34

May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.

Psalm 112:1

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

Psalm 119:1

Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 119:11

I treasure your word in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.

Psalm 119:35

Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 119:92

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

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 88:1

O Lord, God of my salvation, at night, when I cry out before you,

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.

Luke 18:7

And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?

Luke 2:37

then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Romans 7:22

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

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Timothy 4:15

Put these things into practice, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.

2 Timothy 1:3

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

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful.

1 John 5:3

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