⁵⁶ This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.

¹⁸ They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

¹⁹ He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

²⁰ The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

²² For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

²² And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

²³ And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

²⁴ He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.