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Psalm 28

¹Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
³Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
⁵Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
⁶Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
⁸The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

³And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
⁴Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
⁵And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,
⁶Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
⁷Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
⁸And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
⁹And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.
¹⁰And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
¹¹And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
¹²And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying,
¹³Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

3Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
²To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
⁴But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
⁵Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
⁶Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
⁷That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
⁸This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
⁹But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
¹⁰A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
¹¹Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
¹²When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
¹³Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
¹⁴And let our’s also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
¹⁵All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.