Joshua 1:8

This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

Cross References (33)

  • Psalms 119:15 (227)

    I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

  • Psalms 19:14 (171)

    May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

  • Colossians 3:16 (166)

    Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing ps

  • Proverbs 3:1 (149)

    My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

  • Deuteronomy 29:9 (148)

    So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

  • John 14:21 (138)

    Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and

  • Luke 11:28 (126)

    But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

  • Deuteronomy 6:6–9 (121)

    These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

  • Matthew 7:24 (115)

    Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

  • Psalms 119:11 (104)

    I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

  • James 1:22–25 (96)

    Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

  • Psalms 1:1–3 (95)

    Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the sea

  • Psalms 119:97 (87)

    Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

  • Deuteronomy 11:18–19 (75)

    Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

  • Matthew 7:21 (72)

    Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father

  • John 13:17 (72)

    If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

  • Proverbs 2:1–5 (70)

    My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

  • Psalms 37:30–31 (69)

    The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

  • Joshua 1:7 (67)

    Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not

  • Deuteronomy 5:29 (60)

    If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and wit

  • Deuteronomy 30:14 (60)

    But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

  • Psalms 119:99 (53)

    I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

  • Isaiah 59:21 (49)

    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have

  • Ephesians 4:29 (48)

    Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing g

  • Deuteronomy 5:32 (48)

    So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

  • Matthew 12:35 (45)

    The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil s

  • Deuteronomy 31:11 (44)

    when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of a

  • 1 Timothy 4:14–16 (43)

    Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the

  • Psalms 119:42–43 (42)

    Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

  • Deuteronomy 17:18–19 (41)

    When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence

  • Matthew 28:20 (41)

    and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

  • Psalms 40:10 (40)

    I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concea

  • Revelation 22:14 (35)

    Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by it