Psalms 116:9

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.