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 pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
• Ps 119:105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
• Jer 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
• Prov 30:5Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
• Ps 119:92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
• Prov 2:6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Prov 6:23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
• Ps 119:98–100Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
• Rom 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Gal 2:19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
• Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Ps 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Deut 4:5–6Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
• Ps 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
• Ps 119:14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
• Ps 119:12Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
• Ps 119:171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 105:45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
• Ps 13:3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
• Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
• Ps 119:130The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
• Gen 26:5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
• Exod 18:16When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
• Ps 119:121I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
• Ezek 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
• Isa 64:5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
• Ps 119:54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
• Deut 12:11–12Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
• Ps 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Neh 9:13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
• Neh 8:12And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
• Rom 7:12–14Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Deut 16:11And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
• Deut 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
• Gal 3:10–13For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

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