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Psalm 16

¹Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
²O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
³But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
⁶The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
⁷I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
⁸I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
¹¹Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

¹⁵And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
¹⁶David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
¹⁷And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
¹⁸And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
¹⁹But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
²⁰Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
²¹Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
²²And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
²³But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

2But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
²For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
³And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
⁴For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
⁵But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
⁶Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
⁷So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
⁸Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
⁹For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
¹⁰To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
¹¹Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
¹²Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
¹³I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
¹⁴Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
¹⁵For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
¹⁶To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
¹⁷For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.