The King James Version Bible

Psalms 40:8

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

Cross References

  1. Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
  2. I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  3. Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
  4. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
  5. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  6. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
  7. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  8. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
  9. Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
  10. And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
  11. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
  12. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
  13. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  14. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.