Delighting in God
14 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- Commanded
- Hypocrites in Heart Despise
- Hypocrites: Blessedness
- Hypocrites: Pretend To
- Hypocrites: Promises To
- Observing the Sabbath Leads To
- Reconciliation Leads To
- Saints' Experience in Communion with God
- Saints' Experience in The Comforts of God
- Saints' Experience in The Goodness of God
- Saints' Experience in The Law of God
Commanded
- Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Hypocrites in Heart Despise
- Job 27:10 Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- Jeremiah 6:10 To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Hypocrites: Blessedness
- Psalm 112:1 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Hypocrites: Pretend To
- Isaiah 58:2 For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Hypocrites: Promises To
- Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Observing the Sabbath Leads To
- Isaiah 58:13–14 If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own …
Reconciliation Leads To
Saints' Experience in Communion with God
- Song of Solomon 2:3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Saints' Experience in The Comforts of God
- Psalm 94:19 When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
Saints' Experience in The Goodness of God
- Nehemiah 9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
Saints' Experience in The Law of God
- Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
- Psalm 119:24 Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
- Psalm 119:35 Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.