New Revised Standard Version
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name;

Contemporary English Version
the LORD said, "It's good that you want to build a temple where I can be worshiped.

New American Bible
the LORD said to him: In wishing to build a house for my name, you did well.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:

The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast done well indeed in having such a will:

thou didst well

1 Kings 8:18-21 And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind. . . .

Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.