The source
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
⛓ Read Psalm 40 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Mark 3:31-35 ?
'I delight to do your will, O my God' anchors the climactic criterion of kinship: doing the will of God. The will-of-God obedience theme has strong recurrence in the Psalter and high coherence with Jesus' redefinition of family.
Medium confidenceMatt 12:46-50 ?
'I delight to do your will, O my God' — doing the Father's will as the mark of true belonging coheres with 'whoever does the will of my Father.'
Low confidence