- Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you. - The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. - Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.
- Let us test and examine our ways,
and return to the Lord.
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.