Psalms 18:22
Hebrew Text— Psalms 18:22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
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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.
She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.
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.
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.
He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.
Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.
You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,