¹⁵ for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

²⁰ Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

⁷ Good `is' Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

⁹ The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

²² Thou hast faith! to thyself have `it' before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

¹² Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

¹³ brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

⁹ thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

² for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

⁷ and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

⁸ if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

²³ and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

⁴⁰ Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,

⁴⁶ `When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

¹² Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

⁴ Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

³ Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

¹⁰ Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.

³ I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

¹ `Aleph.' O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,

² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

³ Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.

⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

¹⁹ for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

²⁰ And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

¹⁶ And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that `it is' good,

¹⁰⁴ From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

¹¹³ `Samech.' Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

¹²⁸ Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

³² The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

¹³ The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

⁵ A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁶³ Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate `it', Thy law I have loved.

⁴⁸ Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;