Psalm 40:8
New Living Translation
8 I take joy in doing your will, my God,
for your instructions are written on my heart.”
Romans 7:22
New Living Translation
22 I love God’s law with all my heart.
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John 4:34
New Living Translation
34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
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Psalm 119:16
New Living Translation
16 I will delight in your decrees
and not forget your word.
Jeremiah 15:16
New Living Translation
16 When I discovered your words, I devoured them.
They are my joy and my heart’s delight,
for I bear your name,
O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.
Psalm 119:24
New Living Translation
24 Your laws please me;
they give me wise advice.
Psalm 119:47
New Living Translation
47 How I delight in your commands!
How I love them!
Psalm 37:30-31
New Living Translation
30 The godly offer good counsel;
they teach right from wrong.
31 They have made God’s law their own,
so they will never slip from his path.
Psalm 119:92
New Living Translation
92 If your instructions hadn’t sustained me with joy,
I would have died in my misery.
Psalm 112:1
New Living Translation
Psalm 112[a]
1 Praise the Lord!
How joyful are those who fear the Lord
and delight in obeying his commands.
Footnotes
- 112 This psalm is a Hebrew acrostic poem; after the introductory note of praise, each line begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Jeremiah 31:33
New Living Translation
33 “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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Proverbs 3:1
New Living Translation
Trusting in the Lord
3 My child,[a] never forget the things I have taught you.
Store my commands in your heart.
2 Corinthians 3:3
New Living Translation
3 Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.
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Job 23:12
New Living Translation
12 I have not departed from his commands,
but have treasured his words more than daily food.
Romans 8:29
New Living Translation
29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn[a] among many brothers and sisters.
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- 8:29 Or would be supreme.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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