When the poor cried out, I helped them; I gave help to orphans who had nowhere to turn.

I have always acted justly and fairly.

I was like a father to the poor and took the side of strangers in trouble.

How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

Praise the LORD! Happy is the person who honors the LORD, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

I take pleasure in your laws; your commands I will not forget.

If your law had not been the source of my joy, I would have died from my sufferings.

So I realized that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still alive.

You welcome those who find joy in doing what is right, those who remember how you want them to live. You were angry with us, but we went on sinning; in spite of your great anger we have continued to do wrong since ancient times.

"My food," Jesus said to them, "is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.

My inner being delights in the law of God.

God, the righteous one, knows what goes on in the homes of the wicked, and he will bring the wicked down to ruin.

Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?

The LORD protects honest people, but destroys those who do wrong.

Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'

the Son of Man will send out his angels to gather up out of his Kingdom all those who cause people to sin and all others who do evil things,

and they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

But he will say again, 'I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!'

How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!