Psalms 119:174

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

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

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

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

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

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

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

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

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

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,

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

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

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

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

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

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

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.