Blessed is the man who makes Jehovah his trust and has not turned to the proud, nor to such as turn aside to lies.

I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Thus Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had transgressed against Jehovah, because he had not kept the Word of Jehovah, and because he asked counsel to seek after a medium.

He had not inquired after Jehovah; therefore He killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself.

Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

and those drawing back from following Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired of Him.

Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul is not pleased with him.

whose paths are crooked, who are devious in their tracks;

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who work out lawlessness!

But if that wicked servant says in his heart, My master delays his coming,

the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting him and in an hour he does not know,

Yea, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel!

For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed, says Jehovah, who has mercy on you.

And all your children shall be taught of Jehovah, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them lie down safely.

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.