How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

Praise the LORD! Happy is the person who honors the LORD, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

I keep your law in my heart, so that I will not sin against you.

Keep me obedient to your commandments, because in them I find happiness.

I find pleasure in obeying your commands, because I love them.

I respect and love your commandments; I will meditate on your instructions.

The law that you gave means more to me than all the money in the world.

If your law had not been the source of my joy, I would have died from my sufferings.

I always do what God commands; I follow his will, not my own desires.

You spoke to me, and I listened to every word. I belong to you, LORD God Almighty, and so your words filled my heart with joy and happiness.

My inner being delights in the law of God.

For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

May he be pleased with my song, for my gladness comes from him.

I keep your law in my heart, so that I will not sin against you.

I study your instructions; I examine your teachings.

How I love your law! I think about it all day long.

I understand more than all my teachers, because I meditate on your instructions.

Be sure that the book of the Law is always read in your worship. Study it day and night, and make sure that you obey everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Practice these things and devote yourself to them, in order that your progress may be seen by all.

LORD God, my savior, I cry out all day, and at night I come before you.

(SEE 2:36)

Now, will God not judge in favor of his own people who cry to him day and night for help? Will he be slow to help them?

Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.

I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did. I thank him as I remember you always in my prayers night and day.