Psalms 119:35

The psalmist asks God to lead him in the path of His commandments, in which he delights. It matters because God's guidance and the believer's delight in His ways go hand in hand.

Cross-references · 18

• Ezek 36:26–27A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
• Ps 23:3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
• Ps 25:4Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
• Prov 4:11I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
• Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
• Prov 8:20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
• Heb 13:21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 119:27Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Isa 48:17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• Ps 119:36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
• Isa 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Ps 119:173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
• Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
• Isa 58:13–14If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

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