For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions. פ (Pe)
That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions. נ (Nun)
You despise all who stray from your statutes, for they are deceptive and unreliable.
May my tongue sing about your instructions, for all your commands are just.
Then I would not be ashamed, if I were focused on all your commands.
For I am aware of all his regulations, and I do not reject his rules.
Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.
For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?