I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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