Psalms 26:1–2

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

⁸The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

⁷The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

¹⁵The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

³I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

⁷For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

⁹He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

²O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

²¹Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

⁵Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

⁴For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

⁵Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

⁶And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

⁵Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

¹²For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

²³Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

²⁵The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

³He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁷The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

⁸The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

²He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

¹¹But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

¹⁴But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

²⁴Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

³¹The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

¹JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

¹SAVE me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

²He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

⁶He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

³Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁹And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

¹²But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

⁴Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

⁵If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

⁶Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

¹⁰For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.