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10  For your name’s sake, O Lord, ♦︎
   be merciful to my sin, for it is great.
11  Who are those who fear the Lord? ♦︎
   Them will he teach in the way that they should choose.
12  Their soul shall dwell at ease ♦︎
   and their offspring shall inherit the land.
13  The hidden purpose of the Lord is for those who fear him ♦︎
   and he will show them his covenant.
14  My eyes are ever looking to the Lord, ♦︎
   for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
15  Turn to me and be gracious to me, ♦︎
   for I am alone and brought very low.
16  The sorrows of my heart have increased; ♦︎
   O bring me out of my distress.
17  Look upon my adversity and misery ♦︎
   and forgive me all my sin.
18  Look upon my enemies, for they are many ♦︎
   and they bear a violent hatred against me.
19  O keep my soul and deliver me; ♦︎
   let me not be put to shame, for I have put my trust in you.
20  Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, ♦︎
   for my hope has been in you.
21  Deliver Israel, O God, ♦︎
   out of all his troubles.

19Better the poor walking in integrity
   than one perverse of speech who is a fool.
² Desire without knowledge is not good,
   and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.
³ One’s own folly leads to ruin,
   yet the heart rages against the Lord.
⁴ Wealth brings many friends,
   but the poor are left friendless.
⁵ A false witness will not go unpunished,
   and a liar will not escape.
⁶ Many seek the favour of the generous,
   and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts.
⁷ If the poor are hated even by their kin,
   how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.^*
8 To get wisdom is to love oneself;
   to keep understanding is to prosper.
⁹ A false witness will not go unpunished,
   and the liar will perish.
¹⁰ It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury,
   much less for a slave to rule over princes.
¹¹ Those with good sense are slow to anger,
   and it is their glory to overlook an offence.
¹² A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion,
   but his favour is like dew on the grass.
¹³ A stupid child is ruin to a father,
   and a wife’s quarrelling is a continual dripping of rain.
¹⁴ House and wealth are inherited from parents,
   but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
¹⁵ Laziness brings on deep sleep;
   an idle person will suffer hunger.
¹⁶ Those who keep the commandment will live;
   those who are heedless of their ways will die.
¹⁷ Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
   and will be repaid in full.

Love One Another

11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹²We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. ¹³Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters,^* that the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. ¹⁵All who hate a brother or sister^* are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them. ¹⁶We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. ¹⁷How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister^* in need and yet refuses help?