We always thank God for you all and always mention you in our prayers.

For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love made you work so hard, and how your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is firm.

Then King David went into the Tent of the LORD's presence, sat down and prayed, "Sovereign LORD, I am not worthy of what you have already done for me, nor is my family.

What more can I say to you! You know me, your servant.

The following Levites gave a call to worship: Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah. They said: "Stand up and praise the LORD your God; praise him forever and ever! Let everyone praise his glorious name, although no human praise is great enough."

I will always put my hope in you; I will praise you more and more.

I will tell of your goodness; all day long I will speak of your salvation, though it is more than I can understand.

But thanks be to God! For in union with Christ we are always led by God as prisoners in Christ's victory procession. God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.

Let us thank God for his priceless gift!

So, in all our trouble and suffering we have been encouraged about you, friends. It was your faith that encouraged us,

because now we really live if you stand firm in your life in union with the Lord.

After all, it is you---you, no less than others!---who are our hope, our joy, and our reason for boasting of our victory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes.

In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.

You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the LORD your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the LORD your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.

Be joyful in the LORD's presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.

David answered, "I was dancing to honor the LORD, who chose me instead of your father and his family to make me the leader of his people Israel. And I will go on dancing to honor the LORD,

But the righteous are glad and rejoice in his presence; they are happy and shout for joy.

be glad, fields, and everything in you! The trees in the woods will shout for joy

when the LORD comes to rule the earth. He will rule the peoples of the world with justice and fairness.

Clap your hands, you rivers; you hills, sing together with joy before the LORD,

because he comes to rule the earth. He will rule the peoples of the world with justice and fairness.