Psalm 125:4
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4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good
and to those who are upright in their hearts.(A)
Psalm 7:10
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10 God is my shield,
who saves the upright in heart.(A)
Psalm 119:68
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68 You are good and do good;
teach me your statutes.(A)
Psalm 84:11
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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.(A)
Psalm 51:18
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18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;(A)
Revelation 14:5
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5 and in their mouth no lie was found; they are blameless.(A)
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1 John 3:17-24
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17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?(A)
18 Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.(B) 19 And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him(C) 20 whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have boldness before God, 22 and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.(D)
23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.(E) 24 All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.(F)
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Hebrews 6:10
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10 For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the[a] love that you showed for his sake[b] in serving the saints, as you still do.(A)
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John 1:47
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47 When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”(A)
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Lamentations 3:25
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25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul that seeks him.(A)
Isaiah 58:10-11
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10 if you offer your food to the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
and your gloom be like the noonday.(A)
11 The Lord will guide you continually
and satisfy your needs in parched places
and make your bones strong,
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water
whose waters never fail.(B)
Psalm 119:80
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80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
so that I may not be put to shame.
Psalm 94:15
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15 for justice will return to the righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Psalm 73:1
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Book III
(Psalms 73–89)
Psalm 73
Plea for Relief from Oppressors
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Truly God is good to Israel,
to those who are pure in heart.(A)
Psalm 36:10
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10 O continue your steadfast love to those who know you
and your salvation to the upright of heart!
Psalm 32:2
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2 Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.(A)
Psalm 41:1-3
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Psalm 41
Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
1 Happy are those who consider the poor;[a]
the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.(A)
2 The Lord protects them and keeps them alive;
they are called happy in the land.
You do not give them up to the will of their enemies.(B)
3 The Lord sustains them on their sickbed;
in their illness you heal all their infirmities.[b](C)
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