Psalm 101

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Psalm 101

A Vow of Integrity

A psalm of David.

¹I will sing of faithful love and justice;
I will sing praise to you, Lord.^(A)
²I will pay attention to the way of integrity.
When will you come to me?
I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.^(B)
³I will not let anything worthless guide me.^[a]
I hate the practice of transgression;
it will not cling to me.^(C)
⁴A devious heart will be far from me;
I will not be involved with^[b] evil.^(D)

⁵I will destroy anyone
who secretly slanders his neighbor;^(E)
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.^(F)
⁶My eyes favor the faithful of the land
so that they may sit down with me.
The one who follows the way of integrity
may serve me.^(G)
⁷No one who acts deceitfully
will live in my palace;
the one who tells lies
will not be retained here to guide me.^[c]^(H)
⁸Every morning I will destroy
all the wicked of the land,
wiping out all evildoers from the Lord’s city.^(I)

Footnotes

101:3 Lit I will not put a worthless thing in front of my eyes
101:4 Lit not know
101:7 Lit be established in front of my eyes

Proverbs 22:24-25

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²⁴Don’t make friends with an angry person,^[a]
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,^(A)
²⁵or you will learn his ways^(B)
and entangle yourself in a snare.

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Footnotes

22:24 Lit with a master of anger

Galatians 2:11-21

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Freedom from the Law

¹¹But when Cephas^[a] came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.^[b] ¹²For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party. ¹³Then the rest of the Jews^(A) joined his hypocrisy,^(B) so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas^[c] in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile^(C) and not like a Jew,^(D) how can you compel Gentiles to live^(E) like Jews?” ^[d]

¹⁵We are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners,” ¹⁶and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law^(F) but by faith in Jesus Christ,^[e] even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ^[f] and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will^[g] be justified. ¹⁷But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ,^(G) is Christ then a promoter^[h]^(H) of sin? Absolutely not!^(I) ¹⁸If I rebuild^(J) those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.^(K) ¹⁹For through the law I died to the law,^(L) so that I might live for God.^(M) ²⁰I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.^(N) The life I now live in the body,^[i] I live by faith in the Son of God,^(O) who loved^(P) me^(Q) and gave himself^(R) for me.^(S) ²¹I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law,^(T) then Christ died^(U) for nothing.

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Footnotes

2:11 Other mss read Peter
2:11 Or he was in the wrong
2:14 Other mss read Peter
2:14 Some translations continue the quotation through v. 16 or v. 21.
2:16 Or by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ
2:16 Or by the faithfulness of Christ
2:16 Lit law all flesh will not
2:17 Or servant
2:20 Lit flesh

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