Order my steps according to Your word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

"The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;

While He spoke these words, many believed in Him.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."

Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I say to you, that everyone that practices sin is a slave of sin.

Therefore if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

But the [one] who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [in it], and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one shall be blessed in what he does.

So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

promising to them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated, by this [one] also he has been enslaved.

I am a stranger in the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.

[It is] good for me that You have afflicted me; that I might learn Your statutes.

I am Yours, save me; for I have sought out Your statutes.

My eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on Your oracles.

I will rejoice because of Your oracles, as one that finds much spoil.

and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses, but at all times he will be liable to reproach.

And I applied my heart to seek out and examine by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, for God has given to the sons of men a burdensome task to be afflicted with.

You search the Scriptures, because you think [that] in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about Me.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].