Psalm 19:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Psalm 19:8

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

Rejoicing

Is pure

Enlightening

General references

Deuteronomy 4:8

Proverbs 8:9

Bible References

Rejoicing

I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my bowels.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as above all riches.

then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offerings of your hand and all your choice of vows which ye vow unto the LORD;

And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manslave and thy maidslave and the Levite that is within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God has chosen to place his name there.

And all the people went to eat and to drink and to send portions and to rejoice with great joy because they had understood the words that were taught unto them.

Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteous ness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and we shall be saved.

Thy words were found, and I ate them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, O LORD God of the hosts.

For I delight with the law of God with the inward man,

Is pure

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts; cause me to live in thy righteousness.

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto those that put their trust in him.

So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Enlightening

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies, for they are eternal unto me.

For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and intelligence.

For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,

Behold, thou doth call thyself a Jew and art supported by the law and doth glory in God

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

General references

And what nation is there so great that has statutes and rights so just as all this law, which I set before you this day?

They are all plain to him that understands and right to those that have found wisdom.