¹⁷⁴ I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

¹⁶ I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

²³ For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

²³ And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

²⁵ But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

²² For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

²³ But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

²⁴ O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

¹² Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

¹⁶⁶ Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

¹⁶⁷ My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶² I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

¹¹¹ Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.