Psalms 16:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
In Context
2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:41Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.
Psalms 101:6My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me.
Psalms 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
Proverbs 8:31I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Song of Solomon 7:10I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 16:2-8
Believing Confidence; Consecration to God. 1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord , Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. 5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my… Read the whole commentary →