"The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes."
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And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
\19:7\The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The precepts of Jehovah `are' upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah `is' pure, enlightening the eyes,