Psalm 26

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.

⁸The Lord judges the peoples; vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and integrity.

⁷The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.

¹⁵May the Lord be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”

³“Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁷For the king trusts in the Lord; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

²⁴See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

⁹Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

³You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

⁹This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

²³How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

¹²O Lord of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

⁷But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

³“Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

³²Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

⁴I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

¹⁸And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

¹⁷I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

¹Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

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

¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

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

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

⁶I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the Lord I trust.

³I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

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

²¹Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord, and detest those who rise against You?

²²I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

¹Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

⁹I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

¹⁰I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

¹³Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

¹⁶Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

¹⁷Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

⁵He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet.

²⁰Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

²⁸Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

²⁹For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

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.

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.

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

¹²How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?

¹³I will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.

²⁷The Lord is God; He has made His light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

¹⁸Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and seek Him in His temple.

⁵For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

¹⁴In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

¹⁵So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

⁹For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your prosperity.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!

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

⁴⁶Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

³²All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

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

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

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

⁴⁴And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

¹⁸So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

¹⁹He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

⁴⁶And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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.

⁸Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

³But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

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

³Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

¹⁴But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

¹Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

¹⁸For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

¹⁴He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

¹⁰You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.

³saying, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

¹Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

⁹He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

⁹He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

²²I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

²³You who fear the Lord, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!