Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
Updated King James Version
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, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let yours heart keep my commandments:
Jeremiah 31:33But this shall be 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 write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after 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 →