For You, O Jehovah, will bless the righteous; with favor You will surround him as with a shield.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Jehovah, the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall cower before you, and you shall tread down their high places.

You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your affliction has made me great.

Set apart Your wonderful lovingkindness, O You who by Your right hand saves those who trust in You, from those who rise up against me.

Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One, with Your glory and Your majesty.

And ride prosperously in Your majesty, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young.

All your rulers have fled together; they have been captured without the bow; all who are found in you have been captured together; they have fled from afar.

Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and fairness of Christ; who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, fair, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Moreover the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.