the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.
I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes.
Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!
that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.”
because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.
then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
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