So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

Their relatives, who were leaders of their families, numbered 1,760. They were capable men who were assigned to carry out the various tasks of service in God’s temple.

They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

He gave me reason to sing a new song, praising our God. May many see what God has done, so that they might swear allegiance to him and trust in the Lord!

We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.

You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.

Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

You must not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me,