Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
World English 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, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
Psalms 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Proverbs 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
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 →