Psalm 119

The Glories of God’s Law

²⁰ so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.^(A)

²⁸ But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”^(A)

²⁵ But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.^(A)

Psalm 128

The Happy Home of the Faithful

A Song of Ascents.

¹⁷ If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

⁶ Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.^(A)

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,^{[a](A) 12} training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,^(B)

Psalm 1

The Two Ways

A Life Pleasing to God

4 Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.^{(A) 2} For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.