My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way;
to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
and them that are turned back from following the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired after him.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath left off to be wise and to do good.
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
Then should I yet have comfort; Yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not: For I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
If my step hath turned out of the way, And mine heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to mine hands:
The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not swerved from thy law.
Although thou knowest that I am not wicked; And there is none that can deliver out of thine hand?
That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth: