| Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain. | Dispose my heart to follow your statutes and to flee selfish gain. |
| As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. | As a deer longs for running streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. |
| I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. | I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he set me free from all my fears. |
| I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. | I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and listened to my cry for mercy, because he has inclined his ear to me on the day when I called out to him. |
| Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. | Your kindness is a greater joy than life itself; thus my lips will speak your praise. I will bless you all my life; with uplifted hands I will call on your name. |
| I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. | I will extol you, my God and King; I will bless your name forever and ever. |
| You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. | As for you, my child, take strength from the grace that is in Christ Jesus. |
| I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. | Nothing gives me greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
| When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up. | When I realized that my foot was slipping, your kindness, O Lord, raised me up. |
| If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. | If I give away everything to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but do not have love, I achieve nothing. |
| One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him. | Anyone who has received my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him. |
| So is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. | So shall my word be that issues forth from my mouth. It will not return to me unfulfilled, but it will accomplish my purpose and achieve what I sent it forth to do. |
| Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me. | Guide my steps in accord with your word and never let evil triumph over me. |
| My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long. | My mouth is filled with your praises as I relate your glory all day long. |
| Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” | Then Jesus said to those Jews who did believe in him, “If you remain faithful to my word, you will truly be my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” |
| I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. | I treasure your word in my heart for fear that I may sin against you. |
| I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one. | I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will ever snatch them from my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one. |
| My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. | Observe your father’s command, my son, and do not reject your mother’s teaching. |
| But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. | But I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the end he will stand upon the dust. |
| I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? | I have made a covenant with my eyes not to look with desire upon a virgin. |
| For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them. | For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in their midst. |
| For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. | A word is not even on my tongue and you, O Lord, are completely aware of it. |
| By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. | This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. |
| I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. | I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise will be continually on my lips. |
| Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth. | Acquire wisdom and gain understanding; never forget or turn aside from my words. |
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