Psalms 119:16

The psalmist delights in God's statutes and resolves not to forget His word. It matters because love for Scripture guards against spiritual neglect and drift.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
• Prov 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• Ps 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
• Ps 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Ps 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
• Ps 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
• Ps 119:92–93If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
• Ps 119:141I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
• Heb 10:16–17“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
• Ps 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
• Ps 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
• Ps 119:109I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
• Jas 1:23–24For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
• Ps 1:2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 119:14I rejoice 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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