surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?*
My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
As the truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.