Surely you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

But I would assure you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would be restrained.

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends! For the hand of God has struck me!

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ.

Remember the prisoners as if bound with them; and those who are mistreated, as also being in the body, yourselves.

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah.] i0 par The transgression of the wicked declares within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has left off acting wisely and doing good.

But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?