Psalm 119:9-16

Common English Bible

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⁹How can young people keep their paths pure?
    By guarding them according to what you’ve said.^[a]
¹⁰I have sought you with all my heart.
    Don’t let me stray from any of your commandments!
¹¹I keep your word close, in my heart,
    so that I won’t sin against you.
¹²You, Lord, are to be blessed!
    Teach me your statutes.
¹³I will declare out loud
    all the rules you have spoken.
¹⁴I rejoice in the content of your laws
    as if I were rejoicing over great wealth.
¹⁵I will think about your precepts
    and examine all your paths.
¹⁶I will delight in your statutes;
    I will not forget what you have said.

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Footnotes

Psalm 119:9 LXX

Isaiah 43:8-13

Common English Bible

⁸Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
    the deaf ones who have ears.
⁹All the nations are gathered together;
    the peoples are assembled.
Which of them announced this?
    Who predicted to us the past events?
Let them bring their witnesses as a defense;
    let them hear and say, “It’s true!”
¹⁰You are my witnesses, says the Lord,
    my servant, whom I chose,
    so that you would know and believe me
    and understand that I am the one.
Before me no god was formed;
    after me there has been no other.
¹¹I, I am the Lord,
    and there is no savior besides me.
¹²I announced, I saved, I proclaimed,
not some stranger among you.
You are my witnesses, says the Lord,
    and I am God.
¹³From the dawn of time, I am the one.
    No one can escape my power.
    I act, and who can undo it?

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2 Corinthians 3:4-11

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⁴This is the confidence that we have through Christ in the presence of God. ⁵It isn’t that we ourselves are qualified to claim that anything came from us. No, our qualification is from God. ⁶He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not based on what is written but on the Spirit, because what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Ministers of the new covenant

⁷The ministry that brought death was carved in letters on stone tablets. It came with such glory that the Israelites couldn’t look for long at Moses’ face because his face was shining with glory, even though it was a fading glory. ⁸Won’t the ministry of the Spirit be much more glorious? ⁹If the ministry that brought condemnation has glory, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness? ¹⁰In fact, what was glorious isn’t glorious now, because of the glory that is brighter. ¹¹If the glory that fades away was glorious, how much more glorious is the one that lasts!

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