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Psalm 51

¹Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
²Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
³For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
⁵Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
⁶Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
⁸Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
⁹Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹²Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
¹⁵O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

¹⁶Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.
¹⁷Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
¹⁸A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
¹⁹The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
²⁰A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
²¹Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
²²Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
²³A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
²⁷He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
²⁸The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
²⁹The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

¹⁷Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
¹⁸(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
¹⁹Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
²⁰For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
²¹Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

4Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
²I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
³And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.