I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
Parallel translations
- KJV I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- BSB I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- NKJV I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. ג Gimel
- NASB I shall delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Gimel
- NLT I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word. Gimel
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Cross-references · 18
- Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Ps 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
- Ps 119:35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
- Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:70Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
- Ps 119:92–93Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
- Ps 119:141I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
- Heb 10:16–17“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,
- Ps 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Ps 119:109My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
- Jas 1:23–24For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
- Ps 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
- Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
- Ps 119:14I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
- Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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