Psalms 119:159

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

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

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

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.’

“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.

Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, Yahweh’s song also began, along with the trumpets and David king of Israel’s instruments.

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.