Psalms 40:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart.

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  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.
  • Jer 31:33 : 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 write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
  • Jer 15:16 : 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.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man:
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 40:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened: burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

    7Then I said, Behold, I come: in the scroll of the book it is written of me,

  • Heb 10:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.

    7Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.

    8Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law),

    9Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second.

  • Rom 7:22
    78%

    22For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man:

  • Ps 119:47
    78%

    47And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love.

  • Ps 40:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, You know.

    10I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation: I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

  • Ps 119:174
    75%

    174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

  • Ps 119:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

    35Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.

  • Ps 119:16
    75%

    16I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

  • Ps 119:69-70
    2 verses
    74%

    69The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.

    70Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in Your law.

  • Ps 119:77
    74%

    77Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

  • Ps 37:4
    73%

    4Delight yourself also in the LORD, and he shall give you the desires of your heart.

  • Ps 119:142-143
    2 verses
    73%

    142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth.

    143Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your commandments are my delights.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments.

    11Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

  • Heb 10:16
    72%

    16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,

  • Ps 119:112
    71%

    112I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, forever, to the very end.

  • Ps 119:97
    71%

    97MEM. Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

  • Isa 42:21
    71%

    21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.

  • Ps 143:10
    71%

    10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God: Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

  • Ps 43:4
    71%

    4Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yes, upon the harp I will praise you, O God my God.

  • Ps 119:40
    70%

    40Behold, I long for Your precepts; revive me in Your righteousness.

  • Heb 8:10
    70%

    10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

  • Ps 57:7
    70%

    7My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise.

  • Ps 45:1
    70%

    1My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things I have composed concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

  • Ps 1:2
    70%

    2But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.

  • 2 Sam 15:26
    70%

    26But if he says thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seems good to him.

  • Ps 16:3
    70%

    3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.'

  • Ps 119:127
    70%

    127Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, yes, than fine gold.

  • 2 Sam 22:20
    70%

    20He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

  • Ps 26:8
    70%

    8LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house and the place where Your honor dwells.

  • Ps 119:108
    70%

    108Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Your judgments.

  • 1 Chr 29:17
    70%

    17I know also, my God, that You test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now I have seen with joy Your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to You.

  • Ps 104:34
    69%

    34My meditation of Him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

  • Ps 119:45
    69%

    45And I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your precepts.

  • Ps 108:1
    69%

    1O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

  • Ps 119:7
    69%

    7I will praise You with uprightness of heart, when I have learned Your righteous judgments.

  • Ps 18:1
    69%

    1I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

  • Ps 119:14
    69%

    14I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

  • Ps 119:24
    69%

    24Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

  • Ps 37:31
    69%

    31The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

  • Ps 18:19
    69%

    19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

  • Ps 86:12
    69%

    12I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore.