¹Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. ²Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart. ³Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. ⁴You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them. ⁵Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes! ⁶Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments. ⁷I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments. ⁸I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

¹²So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.