Psalms 57:2

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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!

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

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

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.

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?”

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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.

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

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?

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

For he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.