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 36:26–27I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
• Ps 23:3He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
• Ps 25:4Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
• Prov 4:11I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• 1 Jn 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
• Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
• Ps 119:27Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Ps 119:36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• Isa 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
• Ps 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
• Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
• Isa 58:13–14“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:

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