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Psalm 45

¹My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
²Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
⁴And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
⁵Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
⁷Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
⁸All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
⁹Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
¹¹So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
¹³The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
¹⁴She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

²⁶In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
²⁷The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
²⁸In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
²⁹He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
³⁰A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
³¹He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
³²The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
³³Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
³⁴Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
³⁵The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.

3Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
²Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
³For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
⁴Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
⁵Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
⁶Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
⁷But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
⁸Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
⁹And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
¹⁰That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
¹¹If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
¹²Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
¹³Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
¹⁴I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
¹⁶Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.