Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that I should fulfill thy will, O my God. I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Holman Bible
Your instruction lives within me.”
International Standard Version
I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being."
A Conservative Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.
American Standard Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
Amplified
“I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your law is within my heart.”
Bible in Basic English
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Darby Translation
To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
Julia Smith Translation
To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.
King James 2000
I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
Lexham Expanded Bible
'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law [is] {deep within me}.'"
Modern King James verseion
I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart.
NET Bible
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."
New Heart English Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your Law is within my heart."
The Emphasized Bible
To do thy good-pleasure, O my God, is my delight, And, thy law, is in the midst of mine inward parts:
Webster
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
World English Bible
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
Youngs Literal Translation
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.
Themes
Ark of the covenant » A type of Christ
Christ, character of » Obedient to God the father
Delight » Delighting yourself in the lord
God » Will of, submission to » The result of inward law
Happiness of saints in this life » Is derived from » Obedience to God
character of the renewed Heart » Filled with the law of God
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ doing the will of God the father
Joy » Great joy, occasions of » In service
Law » Bondage of » In the heart
the Law of moses » Christ » Fulfilled all precepts of
Offerings » Animal sacrifices » A type of Christ
Service » Immediate, examples of prompt response to the call of duty » Joy in, found by the faithful
Service » Unquestioning » David
The bible » The law part of » In the heart
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The result of inward law
The Surrendered life » Unquestioning service » David
Types of Christ » Ark of the covenant
Will » God's, submission to » The result of inward law
Topics
Devotionals
Devotionals about Psalm 40:8
Devotionals containing Psalm 40:8
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 40:8
Images Psalm 40:8
Prayers for Psalm 40:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Thanksgiving And A Cry For Help
7 Then said I, "Lo, I come. In the beginning of the book it is written of me, 8 that I should fulfill thy will, O my God. I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart." 9 I will preach of thy righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O LORD, and that thou knowest.
Phrases
Cross References
John 4:34
Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work.
Psalm 119:16
My delight shall be in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy words.
Psalm 119:24
For thy testimonies are my delight, and my counsellors.
Psalm 119:92
If my delight were not in thy law, I should perish in my trouble.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians 3:3
in that ye are known, how that ye 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 fleshly tables of the heart.
Job 23:12
I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.
Psalm 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalm 112:1
{Praise the Everlasting} Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, and hath great delight in his commandments.
Psalm 119:47
My delight shall be in thy commandments, which I love.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments.
Jeremiah 15:16
When I had found thy words, I ate them up greedily: they have made my heart joyful and glad, for I call upon thy name, O LORD God of Hosts.
Romans 7:22
I delight in the law of God, as concerning the inner man.
Romans 8:29
For those which he knew before, he also ordained before, that they should be like fashioned unto the shape of his son, that he might be the first begotten son among many brethren.