With the holy, You shall be holy; and with the blameless, You shall be blameless.

And with the excellent, You shall be excellent; and with the perverse, You shall be shrewd.

Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense unto them.

Blessed be the Lord, for He has hearkened to the voice of my petition.

The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord; and He will take pleasure in his way.

When he falls, he shall not be ruined; for the Lord supports his hand.

For he has hoped in Me, and I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he has known My name.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteousness, and [that] You in truthfulness have afflicted me.

Let, I pray, Your mercy be to comfort me, according to Your word to Your servant.

Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, You will revive me; You have stretched forth Your hands against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand has saved me.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.

And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, [even] Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth.

And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you; and if you go through the fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

For the word of the Lord is right; and all His works are faithful.

He sent from heaven and saved me; He reproached them that trampled on me; God has sent forth His mercy and His truth;

Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].

Justice and judgment are the establishment of Your throne; mercy and truth shall go before Your face.

He has remembered His mercy to Jacob, and His truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

and said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not allowed His righteousness to fail, nor His truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord.

Whereas you came yesterday, shall I today cause you to travel with us, and shall you [thus] change your place? You came forth yesterday, and today shall I set you in motion to go along with us? I indeed will go wherever I may go: return then, and cause your brethren to return with you, and may the Lord deal mercifully and truly with you.

O Lord God, I will glorify You, I will sing to Your name; for You have done wonderful things, [even] an ancient [and] faithful counsel. Amen.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.

He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Savior.

The sacrifice of praise will glorify Me; and that is the way in which I will show to him the salvation of God.

But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children;

to them that keep His covenant, and remember His commandments, to do them.

Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, and do righteousness; for My salvation is about to come, and My mercy shall be revealed.

Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separate me from His people; and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.

I will give to them in My house and within My walls an honorable place, better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.

Who is wise, and will understand these things? Or prudent, and will know them? For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them; but the ungodly shall fall therein.

Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that you may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.

But in every nation, he that fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

(for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

For finding fault [with] them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

For this is the covenant which I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind, and I shall inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I shall by no means remember anymore."

Pursue peace and holiness with all [people], without which no one shall see the Lord: