Psalms 40:8
To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
In Context
7Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous proffereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh judgment;
Psalms 119:16I delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved;
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;
Jeremiah 31:33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 40:7-11
Insufficiency of the Legal Sacrifices; The Efficacy of Christ's Sacrifice. 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… Read the whole commentary →