Psalm 19:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes;

Cross References

Genesis 26:5

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

2 Kings 17:37

The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to observe. You shall not worship other gods;

Nehemiah 8:12

And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

Psalm 105:45

that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 111:7

The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:12

Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes.

Psalm 119:121

I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

Psalm 119:128

Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts; I hate every false way.

Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

Psalm 119:14

I delight in the way of your decrees as much as in all riches.

Psalm 119:143

Trouble and anguish have come upon me, but your commandments are my delight.

Psalm 119:16

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

Psalm 119:171

My lips will pour forth praise, because you teach me your statutes.

Psalm 119:24

Your decrees are my delight; they are my counselors.

Psalm 119:40

See, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness be gracious to me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 119:80

May my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be put to shame.

Psalm 119:92

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

Psalm 12:6

The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Psalm 13:3

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God! Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

Psalm 40:8

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

Psalm 93:5

Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Isaiah 64:5

You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.

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.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:22

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

Romans 7:7

What then are we to say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Deuteronomy 16:14

Rejoice during your festival, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, as well as the Levites, the strangers, the orphans, and the widows resident in your towns.