⁶ Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁸ Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.

⁷ Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

⁶ Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

²² Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

³ But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

¹⁹ For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

²⁵ At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

⁸ A highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.

⁴³ Many times he delivered them, But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.