Psalms 40:8

WEB

⁸I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

KJV

⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

BSB

⁸I delight to do Your will, O my God;^[+] Your law is within my heart.”

FBV

⁸I am pleased to do your will, my God—your Law guides my mind.”

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Extra References

Romans 7:22

²²For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

John 4:34

³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Jeremiah 15:16

¹⁶Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Armies.

Psalms 119:16

¹⁶I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

Psalms 119:24

²⁴Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALETH

Psalms 37:30-31

³⁰The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. ³¹The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Psalms 119:47

⁴⁷I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Psalms 119:92

⁹²Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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 in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Psalms 112:1

¹Praise the LORD!Blessed ^[+] is the man who fears the LORD,^[+] who delights greatly in his commandments.