Psalm 15

³Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

⁴How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah

⁴Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah

¹³Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

⁶Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

²⁴By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

¹⁸He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.

⁹Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

²⁵Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

¹²Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?

¹³Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

⁷He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

⁸to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

⁷Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

¹⁰Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

⁵Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

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.

¹²In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

¹¹Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

¹⁶You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

¹¹Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

³⁵As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back.”

³³Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

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.

⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

⁵No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.

⁶For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the Lord; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

¹⁹Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

²⁵If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

¹²In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

⁸He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

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.

²²Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’

¹⁹Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

²⁰You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.