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 shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
• Ps 119:92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
• Ps 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Ps 119:97–99O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
• Ps 119:15–16I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
• Jer 15:16Thy 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.
• Ps 119:35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
• Ps 104:34My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
• Ps 112:1Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, 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 grievous.
• 1 Tim 4:15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
• Ps 119:47–48And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Ps 119:72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
• Luke 2:37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
• 1 Th 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
• Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
• 2 Tim 1:3I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
• Ps 88:1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

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