⁴ Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.

¹¹¹ I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

²⁶ And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.

²⁷ Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:

²⁸ Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

²⁹ But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

⁷² The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.