Amshir 25, 1744

1To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.

2O my God, I trust in You; Let me not be ashamed; Let not my enemies triumph over me.

3Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.

4Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths.

5Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.

6Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.

7Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your goodness' sake, O LORD.

8Good and upright is the LORD; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.

9The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way.

10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

11For Your name's sake, O LORD, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

12Who is the man that fears the LORD? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.

13He himself shall dwell in prosperity, And his descendants shall inherit the earth.

14The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant.

15My eyes are ever toward the LORD, For He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

16Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.

17The troubles of my heart have enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses!

18Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.

19Consider my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

20Keep my soul, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.

21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.

22Redeem Israel, O God, Out of all their troubles!

43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched--

44where "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'

45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched--

46where "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'

47And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire--

48where "Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.'

49"For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

50Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another."

1Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.

2For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

3Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.

4Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

5One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.

6He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

7For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

8For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

9For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

10But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

11For it is written: "As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God."

12So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.

13Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way.

14I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;

17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

24for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

26If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless.

27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.