Psalms 40:8
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
In Context
7Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
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 →