Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Holman Bible
Your instruction lives within me.”
International Standard Version
I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being."
A Conservative Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.
American Standard Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
Amplified
“I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your law is within my heart.”
Bible in Basic English
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Darby Translation
To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
Julia Smith Translation
To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.
King James 2000
I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
Lexham Expanded Bible
'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law [is] {deep within me}.'"
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that I should fulfill thy will, O my God. I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."
NET Bible
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."
New Heart English Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your Law is within my heart."
The Emphasized Bible
To do thy good-pleasure, O my God, is my delight, And, thy law, is in the midst of mine inward parts:
Webster
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
World English Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
Youngs Literal Translation
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.
Themes
Ark of the covenant » A type of Christ
Christ, character of » Obedient to God the father
Delight » Delighting yourself in the lord
God » Will of, submission to » The result of inward law
Happiness of saints in this life » Is derived from » Obedience to God
character of the renewed Heart » Filled with the law of God
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ doing the will of God the father
Joy » Great joy, occasions of » In service
Law » Bondage of » In the heart
the Law of moses » Christ » Fulfilled all precepts of
Offerings » Animal sacrifices » A type of Christ
Service » Immediate, examples of prompt response to the call of duty » Joy in, found by the faithful
Service » Unquestioning » David
The bible » The law part of » In the heart
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The result of inward law
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » David
Types of Christ » Ark of the covenant
Will » God's, submission to » The result of inward law
Topics
Devotionals
Devotionals about Psalm 40:8
Devotionals containing Psalm 40:8
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 40:8
Images Psalm 40:8
Prayers for Psalm 40:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving And A Cry For Help
7 Then I said, Lo, I come, in the volume of the Book it is written of Me; 8 I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart. 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not kept back My lips, O Jehovah, You know.
Phrases
Cross References
John 4:34
Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
Psalm 119:16
I will delight myself in Your Precepts; I will not forget Your Word.
Psalm 119:24
Your testimonies also are my delight and my advisers.
Psalm 119:92
Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.
Jeremiah 31:33
but this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
2 Corinthians 3:3
it having been made plain that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, not having been written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of the heart.
Job 23:12
nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
Psalm 112:1
Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in His Commandments.
Psalm 119:47
And I will delight myself in Your Commandments, which I have loved.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments;
Jeremiah 15:16
Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.