Psalm 101

¹A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the Lord forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.

²²So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

²³When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

¹After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

²For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”

⁷They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

¹⁵For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

¹⁶So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

¹⁰⁶I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

⁴And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

⁴An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

⁵For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?

¹⁷But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.

⁴For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

³⁷Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

¹“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

¹³When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.

¹⁴But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

²One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

³So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

²⁵Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

²⁸But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

²⁰The perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.

¹⁴Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

¹⁵What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

¹³To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.

²³Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

¹⁹Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

³who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,

²⁷For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

¹¹But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

¹⁴I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

³The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

⁴Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

¹³There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

⁶³I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

⁴³Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

⁴⁴Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

²⁶If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

¹Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the Lord.

²Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.

¹Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

²Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

¹Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.

²With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

¹⁰when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!

¹¹How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

¹²If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

²Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

¹⁶“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

¹⁷He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”

²⁵to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

¹⁰“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

¹²O house of David, this is what the Lord says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

¹²Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

⁸As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah

¹⁴Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

¹⁵But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

²⁶A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.