Psalms 119:39–40

⁷Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

²²Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

⁸Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

³He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

²For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

²But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

¹⁴I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

¹⁴Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

⁸And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

⁸Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

¹²³Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

¹³¹I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

²⁰My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

³¹I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.

⁴³And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

⁷⁵I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

⁹The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

²⁰My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

¹HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

¹³Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.

²⁵My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

³⁷Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

⁴⁵And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

⁵Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

⁴¹Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

¹⁰⁷I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.

¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment.

¹⁵⁶Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy judgments.

⁸⁸Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

²Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

²¹For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

²⁴And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

⁵O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?