(A)Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,
    and to those who are (B)upright in their hearts!

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Lord, do good(A) to those who are good,
    to those who are upright in heart.(B)

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10 My shield is (A)with God,
    who saves (B)the upright in heart.

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10 My shield[a](A) is God Most High,
    who saves the upright in heart.(B)

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  1. Psalm 7:10 Or sovereign

68 (A)You are good and do good;
    (B)teach me your statutes.

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68 You are good,(A) and what you do is good;
    teach me your decrees.(B)

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11 For the Lord God is (A)a sun and (B)shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor.
(C)No good thing does he withhold
    from those who (D)walk uprightly.

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11 For the Lord God is a sun(A) and shield;(B)
    the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold(C)
    from those whose walk is blameless.

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18 (A)Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    (B)build up the walls of Jerusalem;

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18 May it please you to prosper Zion,(A)
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.(B)

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and (A)in their mouth no lie was found, for they are (B)blameless.

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No lie was found in their mouths;(A) they are blameless.(B)

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17 But (A)if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet (B)closes his heart against him, (C)how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not (D)love in word or talk but in deed and (E)in truth.

19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, (F)if our heart does not condemn us, (G)we have confidence before God; 22 and (H)whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and (I)do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, (J)that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and (K)love one another, (L)just as he has commanded us. 24 (M)Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[a] and God[b] in him. And (N)by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

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  1. 1 John 3:24 Greek him
  2. 1 John 3:24 Greek he

17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them,(A) how can the love of God be in that person?(B) 18 Dear children,(C) let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.(D)

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends,(E) if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God(F) 22 and receive from him anything we ask,(G) because we keep his commands(H) and do what pleases him.(I) 23 And this is his command: to believe(J) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,(K) and to love one another as he commanded us.(L) 24 The one who keeps God’s commands(M) lives in him,(N) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.(O)

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10 For (A)God is not unjust so as to overlook (B)your work and the love that you have shown for his name in (C)serving the saints, as you still do.

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10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.(A)

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47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, (A)an Israelite indeed, (B)in whom there is no deceit!”

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47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite(A) in whom there is no deceit.”(B)

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25 The Lord is good to those who (A)wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.

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25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
    to the one who seeks him;(A)

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10 (A)if you pour yourself out for the hungry
    and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
(B)then shall your light rise in the darkness
    and your gloom be as the noonday.
11 And the Lord will guide you continually
    and satisfy your desire in scorched places
    and make your bones strong;
and you shall be (C)like a watered garden,
    like a spring of water,
    whose waters do not fail.

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10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,(A)
then your light(B) will rise in the darkness,
    and your night will become like the noonday.(C)
11 The Lord will guide(D) you always;
    he will satisfy your needs(E) in a sun-scorched land(F)
    and will strengthen(G) your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,(H)
    like a spring(I) whose waters never fail.

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80 May my heart be (A)blameless in your statutes,
    (B)that I may not be put to shame!

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80 May I wholeheartedly follow(A) your decrees,(B)
    that I may not be put to shame.(C)

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15 for (A)justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will (B)follow it.

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15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,(A)
    and all the upright in heart(B) will follow it.

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