Psalm 19:8

The Lord's precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord's commands are pure and give insight for life.

Psalm 12:6

The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

Psalm 119:128

For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.

Psalm 13:3

Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!

Psalm 119:14

I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

Psalm 119:80

May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.

Psalm 119:105

(Nun) Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.

Genesis 26:5

All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws."

Deuteronomy 4:5-6

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 12:11-12

Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you -- your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

Deuteronomy 16:11

You shall rejoice before him -- you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you -- in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 16:14

You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.

Nehemiah 9:13

"You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Psalm 40:8

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."

Psalm 105:45

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 119:12

You deserve praise, O Lord! Teach me your statutes!

Psalm 119:16

I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions.

Psalm 119:24

Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.

Psalm 119:40

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Psalm 119:92

If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.

Psalm 119:98-100

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them.

Psalm 119:121

(Ayin) I do what is fair and right. Do not abandon me to my oppressors!

Psalm 119:130

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.

Psalm 119:143

Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.

Psalm 119:171

May praise flow freely from my lips, for you teach me your statutes.

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.

Isaiah 64:5

You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?

Jeremiah 15:16

As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

Romans 2:17-20

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

Romans 3:20

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Romans 7:12-14

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Galatians 3:10-13

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

Galatians 3:21

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

Nehemiah 8:12

So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food with others and to enjoy tremendous joy, for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

General references

Bible References

Rejoicing

Psalm 40:8
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."
Psalm 119:14
I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you -- your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before him -- you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you -- in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Nehemiah 8:12
So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food with others and to enjoy tremendous joy, for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them.
Isaiah 64:5
You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?
Jeremiah 15:16
As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

Is pure

Psalm 12:6
The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.
Psalm 119:40
Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!
Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.
Romans 7:12
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Enlightening

Psalm 13:3
Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!
Psalm 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them.
Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
Romans 2:17
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God
Romans 3:20
For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

General references

Deuteronomy 4:8
And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?
Proverbs 8:9
All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.

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