¹⁸ So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

²⁰ You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

¹² So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;

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

¹ And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

³ Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?

⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

⁶⁹ And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

⁴ Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

¹⁵⁶ Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.

¹⁵⁴ Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.

¹⁰⁷ I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.

⁴⁰ See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

³⁷ Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

²⁵ <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

⁶ Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

¹³ So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

³⁸ But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.