Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, Lord, God of truth.
you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.
“The clean of hand and pure of heart, who has not given his soul to useless things, what is vain.
I hate an evil assembly; with the wicked I do not sit.
And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.
They are nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.
One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!
When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.
Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it.
for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.
No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”