Psalms 19:8

God's precepts are right and gladden the heart; his commandment is pure and gives light to the eyes. Scripture brings joy and clarity.

Cross-references · 40

• Ps 12:6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
• Ps 119:105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
• Prov 30:5Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
• Ps 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
• Prov 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
• Ps 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
• Ps 119:80May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Prov 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
• Ps 119:98–100Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
• Rom 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Gal 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Rom 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
• Ps 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
• Deut 4:5–6See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
• Ps 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
• Ps 119:14I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.
• Ps 119:12Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
• Ps 119:171My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
• Ps 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
• Ps 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
• Ps 119:130The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
• Gen 26:5because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
• Exod 18:16“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
• Ps 119:121I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
• Ezek 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
• Isa 64:5You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
• Ps 119:54Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
• Deut 12:11–12then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
• Ps 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
• Gal 3:21Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
• Neh 9:13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Neh 8:12Then all the people began to eat and drink, to send out portions, and to rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that had been made known to them.
• Rom 7:12–14So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
• Deut 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• Deut 16:14And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• Gal 3:10–13All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

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