This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but (A)you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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15 I will (A)meditate on your precepts
    and fix my eyes on your (B)ways.

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14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
    be acceptable in your sight,
    O Lord, my (A)rock and my (B)redeemer.

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16 Let (A)the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, (B)singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, (C)with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

(A)My son, do not forget my teaching,
    (B)but let your heart keep my commandments,

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21 (A)Whoever has my commandments and (B)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And (C)he who loves me (D)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and (E)manifest myself to him.”

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(A)Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper[a] in all that you do.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:9 Or deal wisely

28 But he said, (A)“Blessed rather are those (B)who hear the word of God and (C)keep it!”

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And (A)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. (B)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (C)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (D)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Build Your House on the Rock

24 (A)“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like (B)a wise man who built his house on the rock.

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11 I have (A)stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.

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22 But be (A)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, (B)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, (C)he will be blessed in his doing.

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Book One

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

Blessed is the man[a]
    who (A)walks not in (B)the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in (C)the way of sinners,
    nor (D)sits in (E)the seat of (F)scoffers;
but his (G)delight is in the law[b] of the Lord,
    and on his (H)law he meditates day and night.

He is like (I)a tree
    planted by (J)streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its (K)leaf does not wither.
(L)In all that he does, he prospers.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 1:1 The singular Hebrew word for man (ish) is used here to portray a representative example of a godly person; see Preface
  2. Psalm 1:2 Or instruction

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