Psalm 119

²⁸But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

²⁰so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

²⁵But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

¹A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in His ways!

¹⁷If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

⁶Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

¹³You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

²⁹But if from there you will seek the Lord your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

²³Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

¹⁰All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

²⁷And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

¹⁸We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

⁹Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

²¹Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

²⁰and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

²³but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

¹“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

²And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the Lord your God:

³²See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

⁵May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.

²¹equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

³³“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

³⁶Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

²³But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

²⁸And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

²⁶Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

¹⁴You are My friends if you do what I command you.

⁸⁰May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.

³¹I cling to Your testimonies, O Lord; let me not be put to shame.

²⁰Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

²¹Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

¹⁷¹My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.

⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

⁴Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

¹²Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

¹³Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.

¹⁴But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.

⁹Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

¹¹Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

²¹Do not forsake me, O Lord; be not far from me, O my God.

²²Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.

¹⁷⁶I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

¹⁸Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

²²Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

²¹Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

²²Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

¹⁵From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

⁷Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.

⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O Lord.

¹¹I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

³⁴Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

¹⁵And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.

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

³He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

¹³³Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.

⁸And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.

³¹The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

¹⁶Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

⁸I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

¹⁶Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

²²Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

⁶⁴The earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

⁴⁵Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

⁴Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

²⁷And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

¹⁰⁸Accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me Your judgments.

¹⁵My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

¹⁶I will come in the strength of the Lord God; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

⁹I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O Lord, do know.

¹⁰I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

¹⁷I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the Lord has done.

¹¹Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

¹⁷²My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.

⁴⁴The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

¹⁶Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.

¹⁶²I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.

¹Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commandments.

⁹The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true, being altogether righteous.

¹⁰They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

¹²I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

²⁵But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

¹⁴⁸My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.

⁹⁷Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

⁷⁸May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

⁴⁸I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

²⁴Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.

⁴⁷I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

¹My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

³⁵Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

⁹²If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

⁹³I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.

⁶I will sing to the Lord, for He has been good to me.

¹¹For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.

¹²It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

⁴But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

⁷Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.

¹²⁴Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

⁶⁵You are good to Your servant, O Lord, according to Your word.

¹⁷that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

¹⁸I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

¹⁸to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

⁵Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

³Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

¹³This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

¹⁸On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

¹⁵For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

¹²Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

¹³All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

¹⁴Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

⁶Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

¹¹Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

²My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

¹³¹I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.

¹¹My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

¹²I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

¹⁷⁴I long for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law is my delight.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

⁵Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

¹¹⁸You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

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.”

¹⁹I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

¹⁵If, however, you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

³⁹Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good.

²⁰How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

¹⁶keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

¹⁷For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

¹⁴If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

¹⁵Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

²⁰My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

¹Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

²The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the Lord and against His Anointed One:

¹⁰Meanwhile, the chief priests and scribes stood there, vehemently accusing Him.

¹¹And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.

⁷Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?

⁸Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”

³¹For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”

⁶⁶At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,

⁹²If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

¹⁵From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

¹⁶Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

⁸This 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.

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

²¹Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

⁶The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love Your precepts, O Lord; give me life according to Your loving devotion.

²Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

²⁰Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.

²⁵For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

²³But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

⁴Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

¹¹Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.

⁵Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

¹³He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

⁸Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He shows sinners the way.

⁹He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.

⁵the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.

⁶They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.

²Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

¹⁷O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

¹¹both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

⁴He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and compassionate.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

¹⁰And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

¹²I will strengthen them in the Lord, and in His name they will walk,” declares the Lord.

²⁹He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

⁴If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁸If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁸Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

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

¹⁰For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

¹¹No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.

²²to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

²³to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

¹⁹And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

²⁹Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.

²⁹For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord.

⁴²But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

¹⁵But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the Lord, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!”

¹⁸Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

¹⁹Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

⁵And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

³¹So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

²³Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²³When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.

¹⁷But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

²in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.

²⁹And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.

¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

³⁶So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

³²Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

³⁶You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

¹Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

²⁶I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.

²⁷Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.

²⁷And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

⁶being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

¹³Then all your sons will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their prosperity.

¹²Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

¹³But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

⁵Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

²⁴Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

⁵then you will discern the fear of the Lord and discover the knowledge of God.

⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

⁷³Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

²⁵But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

²⁶I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

³He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

⁴Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

¹¹I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

¹³For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

¹⁵And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

⁵Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

²¹For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

²²greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

⁵⁸May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

⁵Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

¹⁶For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

²⁵Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

¹⁵He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

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

³⁹These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own 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.

³⁹I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

¹¹The Lord is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.

²⁰For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

¹¹For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

²⁵And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

²⁶so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The Lord of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.

⁸and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

²²Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

⁷Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

²And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

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.”

¹⁰The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

²⁰My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love Your precepts, O Lord; give me life according to Your loving devotion.

¹Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

²⁵My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

¹⁶Answer me, O Lord, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

⁵⁸I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.

⁷⁶May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

⁷⁷May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

²⁸Simeon took Him in his arms and blessed God, saying:

²⁹“Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace.

¹³²Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.

⁴Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

⁵that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

²⁵So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

¹¹Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.

⁶³“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

⁴⁹Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.

⁸¹My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

⁷⁴May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.

⁴For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.

¹³And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

²³When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

¹⁷⁵Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.

¹⁷O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

¹⁸Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

¹³With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.

¹¹Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”

³³Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.

³⁴Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

¹⁵For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

¹³³Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.

²⁵But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

⁹⁴I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.

¹²When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.

³⁰As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.

³¹So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

³⁹You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

¹⁶I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

¹Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:

²“King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today to defend myself against all the accusations of the Jews,

¹⁸On My account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁹But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say.

³⁸If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

¹⁶Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

¹⁷If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.

⁸So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

⁴⁸I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

⁹⁷Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

¹²⁷Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

⁷The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

³⁴Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

¹⁵I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

²¹Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

¹⁴You are My friends if you do what I command you.

¹⁷If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

¹²Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord God.

²⁵And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁴Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

¹³Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁸¹My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

⁴²For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

⁴For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

⁶³The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

¹⁹When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

¹¹Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

¹⁷So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

¹⁸Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

¹¹My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

⁷You have deceived me, O Lord, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

¹⁵⁷Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.

³Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

⁴We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

³⁵The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”

¹⁸to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.

¹²I will reflect on all You have done and ponder Your mighty deeds.

⁵Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

⁴For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

⁵if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

³Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

⁴But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

³⁵“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

³⁶except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.”

³When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

¹⁵⁸I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.

¹⁷But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

⁶Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

¹⁸For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

¹I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

²I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

¹³All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

¹⁴Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

⁹“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

¹Why, O Lord, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

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.

⁶When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

⁸The Lord decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁸If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

⁹Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

¹⁶⁵Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

¹⁹And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

²⁰Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

¹⁸They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the Lord was my support.

¹⁹He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

²⁴“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

⁵The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

⁵I cry to You, O Lord: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

²⁶My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

¹⁶The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the Lord of Hosts is His name.

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

⁴¹May Your loving devotion come to me, O Lord, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

²²let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

¹⁷⁰May my plea come before You; rescue me according to Your promise.

⁶Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the Lord your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.

⁶Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

⁵Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?

²⁸Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

⁴⁰Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the Lord.

²¹I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

¹⁷Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!

¹⁸I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

⁷This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

⁷For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

⁸do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

¹⁰Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

¹⁶to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

¹Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

⁶When the Lord commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

⁷Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some of the fire that was among them. And he put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who received it and went out.

¹⁷Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.

¹⁸If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.

¹⁷⁶I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

⁹Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

⁵The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

²⁹Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”

¹A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O Lord, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

³⁵Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray.

⁸The Lord decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

¹⁶⁴Seven times a day I praise You for Your righteous judgments.

⁷I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.

¹³⁷Righteous are You, O Lord, and upright are Your judgments.

⁶My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me.

²⁰He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

¹⁶At that time those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the Lord and honored His name.

¹⁷“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

³We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

⁷⁹May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.

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

⁵The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.

¹²Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

²⁹Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

¹⁷Thus says the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

¹⁸If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

⁹The Lord is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

²⁶I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.

¹¹You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

⁶I will sing to the Lord, for He has been good to me.

¹⁷Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

⁵The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

⁶The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.

⁷Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.

³⁵You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.

⁹And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

¹My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

²if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

⁹Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”

¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

¹⁴But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

³⁴Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

²The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.

³And He will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

¹⁸I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the Lord my God.

¹⁹After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

⁷¹It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

¹⁵Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

⁷⁵I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

¹⁷⁶I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

⁵And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

⁶For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

¹²Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

⁶Then the Lord passed in front of Moses and called out: “The Lord, the Lord God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

⁷maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

⁵For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

¹⁷“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

¹Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

¹¹Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

¹²Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

⁴You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

²For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

³They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

¹⁵⁷Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.

⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

⁶⁰But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward

⁵¹The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

¹⁰They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

²⁷For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

⁷From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

¹⁰Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

¹¹No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

⁶⁷Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

¹²Blessed is the man You discipline, O Lord, and teach from Your law,

¹³to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

⁹Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

¹⁰Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

¹¹For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

¹⁰They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

¹²⁷Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.

¹⁶How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

⁴⁴The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

⁴⁵Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.

¹⁶²I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.

¹⁴I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

¹⁵My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁵Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

⁸The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. O Lord, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

⁷Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all things.

¹²⁵I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.

¹⁶Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

²My soul boasts in the Lord; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

³Magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together.

⁷⁹May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.

⁴²Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

³³Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

¹¹Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

¹²But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”

¹⁹Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

¹¹No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

⁴Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

⁵But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

³⁰If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

³¹if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

¹⁰All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

¹²⁸Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

⁴Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

⁵that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

⁴who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

⁵For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

²²Because of the loving devotion of the Lord we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

²³They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

¹⁷⁴I long for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law is my delight.

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

⁴¹May Your loving devotion come to me, O Lord, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

²⁴Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.

⁴⁷I delight in Your commandments because I love them.

²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

⁵¹The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

²³Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

³Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

²⁰How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

⁴Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

⁷⁴May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.

⁷Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

⁷Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

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

¹⁶The Lord your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.

²⁸And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

¹²For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

¹⁴And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

⁶Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

⁴⁷When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

⁴⁰How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

²⁶My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

¹¹⁴You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

⁸O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.

¹⁵I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!

¹⁶So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!

³I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

¹²³My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

¹²Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

¹³Return, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁷Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

³²Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

³⁰My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

¹⁷⁶I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

⁶¹Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

³For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

⁴My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

¹¹Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

⁶Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

⁴⁷Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

⁴⁸What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴“Show me, O Lord, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

⁵You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

⁷Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

²⁷A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

⁷For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

²⁰Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

⁷⁸May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

¹⁵He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

¹¹Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

⁵But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.

¹⁹Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

⁷For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

²⁶Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.

⁷⁸May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

²⁸Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

²For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

⁶¹Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.

²⁴As surely as I valued your life today, so may the Lord value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”

⁵¹The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

⁶So he said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.”

⁷With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.

¹⁰All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

²⁵My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

⁴⁰How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

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

¹⁴⁶I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love Your precepts, O Lord; give me life according to Your loving devotion.

²⁵but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

¹⁸For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

³⁴Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

¹⁶⁰The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.

¹⁵²Long ago I learned from Your testimonies that You have established them forever.

²For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”

⁵For the Lord is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.

⁵Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁶He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

²⁰You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

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.

²For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”

¹The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty; the Lord has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

⁵Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He gave the command and they were created.

⁶He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

¹³Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

²⁵This is what the Lord says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

⁹For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”

²²As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

⁴⁵that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

⁴For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

²²When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

²³For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

¹⁴³Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.

¹⁸If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O Lord, supports me.

¹⁹When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.

⁷⁷May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

²⁴Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.

⁵⁰This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

⁶³The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

¹⁷The Lord your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

⁸But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

⁹Do not be angry, O Lord, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

²⁷Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.

²Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.

²³For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

²⁴and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

²This is the word of the Lord, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

¹⁶⁷I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.

³¹I cling to Your testimonies, O Lord; let me not be put to shame.

⁸⁵The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.

⁸⁶All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!

⁶⁹Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

²¹Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”

⁸He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

⁹He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

¹¹Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

¹⁸For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

⁵You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

⁶Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

³⁷Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment.

²“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

³What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

²But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night.

¹⁰For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love Your precepts, O Lord; give me life according to Your loving devotion.

⁸This 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.

⁴⁸I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

¹⁹It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.

⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

¹⁰⁴I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

¹⁰⁵Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

¹⁶Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

²⁵But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

¹¹I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

⁶Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

²⁵At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

¹¹He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

²⁴Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.

¹⁵From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

²⁴You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

¹⁵When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the Lord, according to the command of the king by the words of the Lord.

¹⁶So the priests went inside the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the Lord. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

²⁸And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

¹²Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

⁹What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

¹⁰Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

⁸How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

⁹The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have?

¹⁵my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

¹⁰For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

¹¹He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁰⁴I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

⁷Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

¹Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

²Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

⁶We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

²⁷And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

¹³And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.

⁷So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

²⁰But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

²¹Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

¹¹For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

¹⁰They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

¹³Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

¹⁴Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

⁵My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.

¹²I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

¹⁷All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

¹²⁸Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

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

¹²There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

⁹⁸Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

¹⁰Hate evil, O you who love the Lord! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

⁹Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

²³For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

³Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.

²⁸For You, O Lord, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

¹⁹We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

³when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

²⁹hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the Lord our Lord.

¹²Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

³So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

⁵And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, through the will of God.

¹³I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

¹⁴the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

⁴When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

⁵It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O Lord, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

²⁵My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

⁸⁸Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

²Bring your confessions and return to the Lord. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

¹²Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

³⁹You are to present these offerings to the Lord at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”

¹⁶⁹May my cry come before You, O Lord; give me understanding according to Your word.

¹³⁰The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.

³When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the Lord delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”

¹⁴Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?

³¹I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”

³But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

⁸³Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

⁹Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.

⁹⁵The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.

⁵The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

⁸⁵The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

⁶Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

⁷We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.

¹⁶Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O Lord God of Hosts.

⁵The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

¹⁷⁴I long for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law is my delight.

⁹²If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

⁴and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

⁴the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

³³Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.

⁴Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.

³⁶Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.

²³“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

⁵⁸May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

⁴⁴I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

⁸He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

¹⁴Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

⁷Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

⁹⁷Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

⁵We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

²¹For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

⁷You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

³But You, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

²Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

⁸¹My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

⁵I wait for the Lord; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

⁶My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

³³Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard my weeping.

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

⁵I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

¹⁹O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

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

⁵And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

²in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.

⁶For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

¹¹It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

²⁴Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the Lord is holding his hand.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

⁶Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

²⁴Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

²⁹My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

⁶I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.

¹⁰even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

⁵My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

¹⁰With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

²¹You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

²³The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

³“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

¹³while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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

²But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

³And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

²⁵I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

¹¹¹Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

³⁰They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.”

¹²His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

²Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the Lord. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

¹⁶I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

⁸So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.

⁹I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

²⁸Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

²⁹“For our God is a consuming fire.”

²¹The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

¹²Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

²⁰The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

¹⁵Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:

³³the Lord will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

¹²For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

¹⁶Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to stay at the home of Mnason the Cypriot, an early disciple.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

⁴if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

²²Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

²¹You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

¹⁴I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

³Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

²⁶Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

²⁷If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

¹¹Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

⁶My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

¹⁷All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

⁷Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

³I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

⁸¹My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

⁸²My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

¹²Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes.

¹⁸Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

⁷⁶May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

⁷⁷May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

⁷O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

¹³²Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.

¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

¹⁴But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

⁵Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

⁸The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.

¹⁶Truly, O Lord, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.

⁵Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

⁶And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

³⁴Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.

⁸How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

⁴Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

⁸But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of Hosts.

¹⁹Rise up, O Lord, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence.

³¹Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

⁶he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

¹⁰They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

⁴⁵Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.

⁴⁶When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.

¹¹For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

¹³Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,

¹⁴for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.

¹⁶How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

⁷²The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

¹⁰⁴I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

⁷The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

⁶Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

⁵Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

⁸And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

¹⁰All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

¹⁸Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

¹O Lord, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.

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

³¹I cling to Your testimonies, O Lord; let me not be put to shame.

¹⁰⁵Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

²³For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

⁶For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁸to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

⁷The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

⁷⁷to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

⁷⁸because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

²⁰My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

²Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

¹⁰I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

¹⁴Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

⁸Yes, we wait for You, O Lord; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

⁹My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

⁴Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

¹²⁴Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

¹⁸Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

¹¹And she made a vow, saying, “O Lord of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”

³¹and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

⁵My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

¹³Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

¹¹⁶Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

¹³Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

⁹He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.

²My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.

¹²²Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

¹⁷Therefore declare that this is what the Lord God says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’

¹⁸When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.

⁷⁴deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

⁷⁵in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.

³¹Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.

¹³For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

²⁵may the Lord cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

²⁶may the Lord lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.’

⁶Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

⁷Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

⁴⁵Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

³Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

¹Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

⁴“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the Lord, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

¹⁸Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

¹⁷You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

¹¹“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the Lord all that night.

⁵³Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.

¹⁵O Lord, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You.”

¹Righteous are You, O Lord, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

¹⁷The Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

⁷To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

⁴He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

⁶The Lord executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

⁷The Law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

¹⁴⁴Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

⁸⁶All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!

⁴⁵These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

⁸And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

⁹because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

²⁷The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

¹⁰“I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

¹⁶“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

¹³But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

⁸The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

⁵Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

⁶The words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.

²¹For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

¹²⁸Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.