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

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

¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

³² Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

¹⁰ I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

¹¹ I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

¹ <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

³³ Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

¹¹ It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.