KJV King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
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Psalm 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
WEB World English Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
ASV American Standard Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.
Surrounding context — Psalm 40
5 Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
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Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.Jeremiah 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.Psalm 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.Psalm 119:24Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellers.Psalm 119:47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.Psalm 37:30-31The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.Psalm 119:92Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.Jeremiah 31:33But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Psalm 112:1Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:2 Corinthians 3:3[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].Romans 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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