⁸ We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,

¹⁶ But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

¹² But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

¹³ Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

⁹⁶ I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.

⁹⁷ <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

⁹⁹ I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

¹⁰⁰ I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

¹⁰¹ I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

¹⁰² My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.

¹⁰³ How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

¹⁰⁴ Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

¹⁰⁵ <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.

⁷ The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

⁸ The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

⁵ And if a man takes part in a competition he does not get the crown if he has not kept the rules.

²¹ Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

² And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

²² In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

¹⁸ For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

¹²⁷ For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

¹²⁸ Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

¹³ And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

⁶ So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

⁷ For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

⁸ And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?