Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 19:8

“The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.”

Psalms 19:8 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 19:8, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 19. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 12:6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
  • Psalms 119:105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
  • Jeremiah 15:16Thy 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.
  • Proverbs 30:5Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
  • Psalms 119:92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
  • Proverbs 2:6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
  • Psalms 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
  • Psalms 119:80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
  • Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  • Proverbs 6:23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • Psalms 119:98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
  • Deuteronomy 4:5Behold, 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.
  • Romans 7:7What 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.
  • Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.