Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts!
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart!
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him; the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies. The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
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