Psalms 1:2

The truly blessed person delights in God's word and meditates on it constantly. Joy in Scripture, not mere duty, marks the righteous life.

Cross-references · 22

• Josh 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
• Ps 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Ps 119:97–99Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
• Ps 119:15–16I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
• Ps 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
• Ps 104:34May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
• Ps 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
• 1 Tim 4:15Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
• Ps 119:47–48I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
• Ps 119:72The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
• Luke 2:37and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
• 1 Th 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
• Luke 18:7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
• 2 Tim 1:3I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.
• Ps 88:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.

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