Psalms 40:8

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I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

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Referenced Verses

  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
  • Ps 119:24 : 24 Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 I will find delight in your commands, which I love.
  • Ps 119:92 : 92 If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions.
  • Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The godly speak wise words and promote justice. 31 The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the one who obeys the LORD, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 40:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

    7Then I say,“Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me.

  • Heb 10:6-9
    4 verses
    81%

    6“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

    7“Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’”

    8When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),

    9then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

  • Rom 7:22
    78%

    22For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

  • Ps 119:47
    78%

    47I will find delight in your commands, which I love.

  • Ps 40:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9I have told the great assembly about your justice. Look! I spare no words! O LORD, you know this is true.

    10I have not failed to tell about your justice; I spoke about your reliability and deliverance; I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness.

  • Ps 119:174
    75%

    174I long for your deliverance, O LORD; I find delight in your law.

  • Ps 119:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.

    35Guide me in the path of your commands, for I delight to walk in it.

  • Ps 119:16
    75%

    16I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions.

  • Ps 119:69-70
    2 verses
    74%

    69Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

    70Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.

  • Ps 119:77
    74%

    77May I experience your compassion, so I might live! For I find delight in your law.

  • Ps 37:4
    73%

    4Then you will take delight in the LORD, and he will answer your prayers.

  • Ps 119:142-143
    2 verses
    73%

    142Your justice endures, and your law is reliable.

    143Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!

    11In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.

  • Heb 10:16
    72%

    16“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

  • Ps 119:112
    71%

    112I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end.

  • Ps 119:97
    71%

    97מ(Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it.

  • Isa 42:21
    71%

    21The LORD wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

  • Ps 143:10
    71%

    10Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land.

  • Ps 43:4
    71%

    4Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.

  • Ps 119:40
    70%

    40Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!

  • Heb 8:10
    70%

    10“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

  • Ps 57:7
    70%

    7I am determined, O God! I am determined! I will sing and praise you!

  • Ps 45:1
    70%

    1For the music director; according to the tune of“Lilies;” by the Korahites, a well-written poem, a love song. My heart is stirred by a beautiful song. I say,“I have composed this special song for the king; my tongue is as skilled as the stylus of an experienced scribe.”

  • Ps 1:2
    70%

    2Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the LORD’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.

  • 2 Sam 15:26
    70%

    26However, if he should say,‘I do not take pleasure in you,’ then he will deal with me in a way that he considers appropriate.”

  • Ps 16:3
    70%

    3As for God’s chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much–

  • Ps 119:127
    70%

    127For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.

  • 2 Sam 22:20
    70%

    20He brought me out into a wide open place; he delivered me because he was pleased with me.

  • Ps 26:8
    70%

    8O LORD, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

  • Ps 119:108
    70%

    108O LORD, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! Teach me your regulations!

  • 1 Chr 29:17
    70%

    17I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

  • Ps 104:34
    69%

    34May my thoughts be pleasing to him! I will rejoice in the LORD.

  • Ps 119:45
    69%

    45I will be secure, for I seek your precepts.

  • Ps 108:1
    69%

    1A song, a psalm of David. I am determined, O God! I will sing and praise you with my whole heart.

  • Ps 119:7
    69%

    7I will give you sincere thanks, when I learn your just regulations.

  • Ps 18:1
    69%

    1For the music director; by the LORD’s servant David, who sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said:“I love you, LORD, my source of strength!

  • Ps 119:14
    69%

    14I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

  • Ps 119:24
    69%

    24Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.

  • Ps 37:31
    69%

    31The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.

  • Ps 18:19
    69%

    19He brought me out into a wide open place; he delivered me because he was pleased with me.

  • Ps 86:12
    69%

    12O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually!