Psalm 19:8

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

Is pure

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.

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

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

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

Enlightening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?

All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.