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Psalm 26

¹Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
²Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
³For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
⁴I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
⁵I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
⁶I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
⁷That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
⁸Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
⁹Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
¹⁰In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
¹²My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the Lord.

Psalm 128

¹Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.
²For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
³Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
⁴Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
⁵The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
⁶Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
⁹Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
¹²The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
¹³There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
¹⁴But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
¹⁵As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
¹⁶And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
¹⁸Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
¹⁹Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
²⁰For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

6Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
²And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
³If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
⁵Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain.
⁷For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
⁸And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
⁹But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
¹⁰For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.