Psalms 16:3

David delights in the saints, the godly people of the land. It matters because love for God overflows into love for his people.

Cross-references · 19

• Prov 13:20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
• Prov 12:26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
• Mal 3:17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
• Acts 9:13Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
• Eph 5:25–27Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• Ps 30:4Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
• Ps 101:6Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
• Prov 8:31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
• Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
• 1 Jn 3:14–17We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• Song 4:1–7Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
• Isa 62:4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
• Ps 119:63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
• Titus 3:8This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
• Gal 6:10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
• Eph 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
• Song 7:10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

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