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Psa 19:8 — The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

statutes		Psa 105:45; Psa 119:12,16,80,171; Gen 26:5; Exd 18:16; Deu 4:5,6; Eze 36:27
right		Psa 119:128; Neh 9:13
rejoicing		Psa 40:8; Psa 119:14,24,54,92,121,143; Deu 12:11,12; Deu 16:11,14; Neh 8:12; Isa 64:5; Jer 15:16; Rom 7:22
is pure		Psa 12:6; Psa 119:40; Pro 30:5; Rom 7:12-14
enlightening		Psa 13:3; Psa 119:98-100,105,130; Pro 2:6; Pro 6:23; Rom 2:17-20; Rom 3:20; Rom 7:7; Gal 2:19; Gal 3:10-13,21

Correlating Passages

statutes

	Psa 105:45	That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
	Psa 119:12	Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
	Psa 119:16	I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
	Psa 119:80	Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
	Psa 119:171	My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
	Gen 26:5	Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
	Exd 18:16	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.
	Deu 4:5	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.
	Deu 4:6	Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.
	Eze 36:27	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].

right

	Psa 119:128	Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way.
	Neh 9:13	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:

rejoicing

	Psa 40:8	I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
	Psa 119:14	I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.
	Psa 119:24	Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.
	Psa 119:54	Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
	Psa 119:92	Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
	Psa 119:121	AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
	Psa 119:143	Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.
	Deu 12:11	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:
	Deu 12:12	And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
	Deu 16:11	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.
	Deu 16:14	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.
	Neh 8:12	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.
	Isa 64:5	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.
	Jer 15:16	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.
	Rom 7:22	For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

is pure

	Psa 12:6	The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
	Psa 119:40	Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
	Pro 30:5	Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
	Rom 7:12	Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
	Rom 7:13	Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
	Rom 7:14	For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

enlightening

	Psa 13:3	Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
	Psa 119:98	Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me.
	Psa 119:99	I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.
	Psa 119:100	I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
	Psa 119:105	NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
	Psa 119:130	The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
	Pro 2:6	For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
	Pro 6:23	For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
	Rom 2:17	Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
	Rom 2:18	And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
	Rom 2:19	And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
	Rom 2:20	An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
	Rom 3:20	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.
	Rom 7:7	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.
	Gal 2:19	For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
	Gal 3:10	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.
	Gal 3:11	But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
	Gal 3:12	And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
	Gal 3:13	Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree:
	Gal 3:21	[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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 19:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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