He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart;

i1 [To the chief Musician. Altaschith. Michtam of David.] i0 par Do you indeed speak justice, O silent ones? Do you judge with equity, O sons of men?

For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk in integrity.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright; a shield to those who walk in integrity,

He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways shall be found out.

to whom we did not yield in submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be partaken with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

for it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.

concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time when things were set right.

Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall reprove to correct your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; it shall be as choicest oil; let my head not refuse it. For still my prayer is against the evil.

Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

for before certain men came from Jacob, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Then he said to them, You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

saying, You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!

I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came to me.

And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter; kill and eat.

But the voice answered me again from Heaven, What God has cleansed do not consider unclean.

At that very moment, three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea.

And he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house, who said to him, Send men to Joppa, and send for Simon whose surname is Peter,

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning.

If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to prevent God?

Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

But we believe through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, in the same manner as they.

Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.