Psalm 40:8 {39:9}
Good News Translation
How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

New Revised Standard Version
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Contemporary English Version
'I enjoy pleasing you. Your Law is in my heart.'"

New American Bible
I delight to do your will, my God; your law is in my inner being!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

I delight

Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Psalm 119:16,24,47,92 I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. . . .

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

John 4:34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

Romans 7:22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

yea

Psalm 37:30,31 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment. . . .

Proverbs 3:1 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2 Corinthians 3:3 Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

within my heart [heb.

Context
I Waited Patiently for the LORD
7Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me 8That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.9I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:15
And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.

John 4:34
Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

2 Corinthians 3:3
Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Hebrews 10:7
Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

Hebrews 10:9
Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted.

Psalm 40:7
Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me

Psalm 119:11
Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Psalm 40:7
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