Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
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I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Attribution contested
The letter opens by naming Paul and the catalogue records that, because it is the only claim the text itself makes. Authorship is disputed: on vocabulary, style and the situation it addresses, many scholars hold it was written in Paul's name by someone in his circle after his death. That was an ordinary practice at the time and is not the same thing as forgery — but it does mean the name on the letter is not settled.