22 Take away from me (A)scorn and contempt,
    (B)for I have kept your testimonies.

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39 Turn away the (A)reproach that I dread,
    for your rules are good.

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Deliver me from all my transgressions.
    (A)Do not make me the scorn of the fool!

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20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But (A)if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.

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14 (A)If you are insulted (B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory[a] and of God rests upon you. 15 But (C)let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or (D)as a meddler. 16 Yet (E)if anyone suffers as a (F)Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God (G)in that name.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:14 Some manuscripts insert and of power

16 (A)having a good conscience, so that, (B)when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For (C)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

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13 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear (A)the reproach he endured.

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(A)Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
    for we have had more than enough of (B)contempt.
Our soul has had more than enough
    of (C)the scorn of (D)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (E)the proud.

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42 then (A)shall I have an answer for him (B)who taunts me,
    for I trust in your word.

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19 Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily (A)bears us up;
    God is our salvation. Selah
20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    (B)and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

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(A)Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
    you restored your inheritance as it languished;
10 your flock[a] found a dwelling in it;
    in your goodness, O God, you (B)provided for the needy.

11 The Lord gives (C)the word;
    (D)the women who announce the news are a great host:

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  1. Psalm 68:10 Or your congregation

10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
(A)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

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(A)He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your justice as (B)the noonday.

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(A)Trust in the Lord, and do good;
    (B)dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.[a]

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  1. Psalm 37:3 Or and feed on faithfulness, or and find safe pasture

“How long will you torment me
    and break me in pieces with words?
These (A)ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
    are you not ashamed to wrong me?

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20 My friends (A)scorn me;
    my eye pours out tears to God,

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And Shimei said as he (A)cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! The Lord (B)has avenged on you all (C)the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”

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39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, (A)“Blessed be the Lord who has (B)avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, (C)and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. (D)The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and (E)spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

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10 And Nabal answered David's servants, (A)“Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? (B)There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.

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