¹³ "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

³ Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

⁴ Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.

⁵ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

⁷ Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

⁹ Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

¹ > Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, In whose spirit there is no deceit.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁶ For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

⁷ You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

³ For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

⁴ that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

⁶ that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.