Psalms 71:9

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

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.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

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

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

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,

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.