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133 Guide my steps by your word,
    so I will not be overcome by evil.

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133 Direct my footsteps according to your word;(A)
    let no sin rule(B) over me.

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13 Keep your servant from deliberate sins!
    Don’t let them control me.
Then I will be free of guilt
    and innocent of great sin.

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13 Keep your servant also from willful sins;(A)
    may they not rule over me.(B)
Then I will be blameless,(C)
    innocent of great transgression.

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116 Lord, sustain me as you promised, that I may live!
    Do not let my hope be crushed.

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116 Sustain me,(A) my God, according to your promise,(B) and I will live;
    do not let my hopes be dashed.(C)

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My steps have stayed on your path;
    I have not wavered from following you.

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My steps have held to your paths;(A)
    my feet have not stumbled.(B)

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The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.
    I will advise you and watch over you.

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I will instruct(A) you and teach you(B) in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on(C) you.

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12 Do not let sin control the way you live;[a] do not give in to sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:12 Or Do not let sin reign in your body, which is subject to death.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign(A) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,(B) but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.(C) 14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(D) because you are not under the law,(E) but under grace.(F)

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He will not let you stumble;
    the one who watches over you will not slumber.

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He will not let your foot slip—
    he who watches over you will not slumber;

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“He will protect his faithful ones,
    but the wicked will disappear in darkness.
No one will succeed by strength alone.

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He will guard the feet(A) of his faithful servants,(B)
    but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.(C)

“It is not by strength(D) that one prevails;

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23 But there is another power[a] within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

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Footnotes

  1. 7:23 Greek law; also in 7:23b.

23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(A) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(B) at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?(C)

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