Psalms 40:8
Hebrew Text— Psalms 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
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“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
“ ‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,
It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”