¹¹² My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.

³³ <HE> O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.

³⁶ Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

¹⁰ Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

⁴ Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

³ But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

⁵⁸ Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.

²³ Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹³ So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

⁴⁴ So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;