Therefore I esteem all Your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me.’
Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
You reject all those who stray from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.
My tongue will speak of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteousness.
Then I shall not be ashamed, when I look upon all Your commandments.
For all His decrees were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me.
Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
So then, the law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good.
We know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
But if I practice what I do not will to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
And what nation is there so great that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I am setting before you today?