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 from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
• Ps 119:92Unless your law had been my delight, 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 I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Ps 119:97–99How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
• Ps 119:15–16I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
• Jer 15:16Your 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, Yahweh, God of Armies.
• Ps 119:35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
• Ps 104:34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
• Ps 112:1Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 119:1ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
• 1 Tim 4:15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
• Ps 119:47–48I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
• Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Ps 119:72The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD
• Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
• 1 Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
• Luke 18:7Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
• 2 Tim 1:3I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
• Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

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