| Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. | Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. |
| And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. | Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. |
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| Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! | Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. |
| When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. | When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. |
| And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” | He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ |
| My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! | My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me. |
| In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. | Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. |
| I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life. | I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life. |
| But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. | But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me. |
| With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! | I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. |
| I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me. | I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws. |
| Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. | Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. |
| And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” | Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ |
| Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! | Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. |
| I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. | I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. |
| Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me. | Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. |
| Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. | Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. |
| Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. | Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. |
| And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. | I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes. |
| Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. | Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. |
| And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” | “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” |
| Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. | Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. |
| I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. | I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. |
| For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. | “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. |
| Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. | Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. |
