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Psalm 119:16

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

14I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
17Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
18Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
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Delight in God’s statutes appears here as a resolve, joined to a promise to remember his word even after the reading ends.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Proverbs 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,Both passages join a commitment to instruction with the refusal to forget it.
Psalm 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”Delight connects God’s statutes in Psalm 119 with doing God’s will in Psalm 40.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Both speakers express delight in God’s instruction, with Romans naming that delight as belonging to the inward person.
Psalm 119:93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.Both verses resolve to remember God’s instruction; verse 93 adds that God has given life through his precepts.
Psalm 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.Both verses resolve to delight in God’s commands, and verse 47 names love for them as the reason.
Psalm 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALETHGod’s statutes are the object of delight in both verses, with verse 24 also describing them as counselors.
Jeremiah 6:10To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a …God’s word and delight link these passages, though Jeremiah describes people who regard the word with reproach.
Hebrews 10:16–17“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;” …Both concern retaining God’s instruction: the psalm resolves to remember, while Hebrews promises God’s laws written on heart and mind.
James 1:23–24For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;Both concern a person’s response to the word; the psalm resolves to remember, while James distinguishes hearing from doing.
Nehemiah 8:12All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.Both connect gladness with words received: the psalm delights in God’s statutes, and Nehemiah describes celebration after understanding the declared words.
Proverbs 21:15It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.Both connect joy with what is right: delight in God’s statutes in the psalm, and joy in doing justice in Proverbs.
Hebrews 12:5You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are …Forgetting instruction is the shared concern: the psalm resolves against it, while Hebrews names an exhortation its readers have forgotten.
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Encouragement

The resolve to remember belongs with delight in what God has said. His statutes are worthy of your attention, and his word is worth keeping.

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