Psalms 19:8 Cross References - ISV

⁸ The precepts of the LORD are upright, making the heart rejoice. The commandment of the LORD is pure, giving light to the eyes.

⁵ I’m going to do this because Abraham did what I told him to do. He kept my instructions, commands, statutes, and laws.”

¹⁶ When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a person and his neighbor, and make known the statutes of God and his instructions.”

⁵ See! I taught you the statutes and the ordinances, just as the LORD God commanded. Therefore, observe them when you enter the land you are about to possess. ⁶ Observe them carefully, because this will show your wisdom and discernment in the eyes of people who’ll listen to all these decrees. Then they’ll say: ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.’

¹¹ then bring to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling place—where he will establish his name—everything that I’m commanding you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, and all your best offerings in fulfillment of promises that you pledged to the LORD.
¹² “Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the descendant of Levi who is in your city—for there is no territorial allotment for him as you have.

¹¹ Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God with your son, daughter, male and female slaves, the descendant of Levi who is in your city, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow among you, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.

¹⁴ Rejoice in your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities.

¹² So all the people went to eat, to drink, to send something to those who had nothing, and to celebrate with great joy, because they understood the words that were being declared to them.

¹³ “You also came down to Mount Sinai, spoke with them from heaven, and gave them impartial regulations, true laws, statutes, and good commands.

⁶ The words of the LORD are pure, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.

³ Look at me! Answer me, LORD, my God! Give light to my eyes! Otherwise, I will sleep in death;

⁸ I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being.”

⁴⁵ so they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Hallelujah!

¹² Blessed are you, LORD! Teach me your statutes.

¹⁴ I find joy in the path of your decrees, as if I owned all kinds of riches.

¹⁶ I am delighted with your statutes; I will not forget your word.

²⁴ I take joy in your decrees, for they are my counselors.

⁴⁰ Look, I long for your precepts; revive me through your righteousness.

⁵⁴ Your statutes are my songs, no matter where I make my home.

⁸⁰ May my heart be blameless with respect to your statutes so that I may not become ashamed.

⁹² Had your instruction not been my pleasure, I would have died in my affliction.

⁹⁸ Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me. ⁹⁹ I am more insightful than my teachers, because your decrees are my meditations. ¹⁰⁰ I have more common sense than the elders, for I observe your precepts.

¹⁰⁵ Nun
God’s Word a LightYour word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my pathway.

¹²¹ Ayin
Praying for God’s DeliveranceI have acted with justice and righteousness; do not abandon me to my oppressors.

¹²⁸ I truly consider all of your precepts—all of them—to be just, while I despise every false way.

¹³⁰ The disclosure of your words illuminates, providing understanding to the simple.

¹⁴³ Though trouble and anguish overwhelm me, your commands remain my delight.

¹⁷¹ May my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

²³ Because the command is a lamp and the Law a light, rebukes that discipline are a way of life—

⁵ Everything God says is pure; he is a shield for those who take refuge in him.

⁵ You come to the aid of those who gladly do what’s right, To those who remember you in your ways. See, you were angry, and we sinned against them for a long time, but we will be saved.

¹⁶ Your words were found, and I consumed them. Your words were joy and my hearts delight, because I bear your name, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies.

²⁷ I’ll place my spirit within you, empowering you to live according to my regulations and to keep my just decrees.

¹⁷ Who is a Jew?Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the Law; ¹⁹ and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law—

²⁰ Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

⁷ The Law Shows Us What Sin IsWhat should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn’t have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn’t have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, “You must not covet.”

¹² So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.
¹³ The Problem of the Sin that Lives in UsNow, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before. ¹⁴ For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am merely human, sold as a slave to sin.

²² For I delight in the Law of God in my inner being,

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.

¹⁰ No One is Justified by the LawCertainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!” ¹¹ Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because “The righteous will live by faith.” ¹² But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, “The person who keeps the commandments will have life in them.” ¹³ The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!”

²¹ So is the Law in conflict with the promises of God? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could give us life, then certainly righteousness would come through the Law.