Joshua 1:8

Joshua is to meditate on God's law day and night and obey it, and then his way will prosper. Saturating life in Scripture is the path to true success.

Cross-references · 33

• Ps 119:15I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
• Ps 19:14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
• Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
• Prov 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• Deut 29:9So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
• John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
• Deut 6:6–9These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
• Matt 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• Jas 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• Ps 1:1–3Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Ps 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
• Deut 11:18–19Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
• John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• Prov 2:1–5My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• Josh 1:7Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.
• Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
• Deut 30:14But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.
• Deut 5:29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
• Ps 119:99I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
• Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
• Eph 4:29Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
• Deut 5:32So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
• Matt 12:35The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
• Ps 119:42–43Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.
• Deut 31:11when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
• 1 Tim 4:14–16Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.
• Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• Deut 17:18–19When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
• Ps 40:10I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

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