I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Parallel translations
- KJV I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
- BSB I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- NKJV I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”
- NASB “I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart.”
- NLT I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your instructions are written on my heart.”
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- Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
- Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- Ps 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
- Ps 37:30–31The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Ps 119:92Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
- Ps 112:1Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
- Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- 2 Cor 3:3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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