May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.
But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.
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