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{"content":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things, as the angels do in heaven.","citation":"WSC 103","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 103","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"103","prooftexts":{},"question":"What do we pray for in the third petition?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"In the third petition, (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,) acknowledging, that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God, but prone to rebel against his Word, to repine and murmur against his providence, and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil: we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness, weakness, indisposedness, and perverseness of heart; and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things, with the like humility, cheerfulness, faithfulness, diligence, zeal, sincerity, and constancy, as the angels do in heaven.","citation":"WLC 192","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 192","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"192","prooftexts":{},"question":"What do we pray for in the third petition?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things,<sup id='fnref:wsc1'><a href='#fn:wsc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> as the angels do in heaven.<sup id='fnref:wsc2'><a href='#fn:wsc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup>","citation":"WSC 103","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 103","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"103","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019014.01-1\">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be acceptable in your sight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, my rock and my redeemer.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119001.10-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19119001-2\">119:1 </span> Blessed are those whose way is blameless,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who seek him with their whole heart,<br />\n who also do no wrong,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but walk in his ways!<br />\n You have commanded your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.<br />\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes!<br />\n Then I shall not be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.<br />\n I will praise you with an upright heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I learn your righteous rules.<br />\n I will keep your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not utterly forsake me!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119009.02-2\">How can a young man keep his way pure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>By guarding it according to your word.<br />\n With my whole heart I seek you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not wander from your commandments!<br />\n I have stored up your word in my heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you.<br />\n Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!<br />\n With my lips I declare<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the rules of your mouth.<br />\n In the way of your testimonies I delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as much as in all riches.<br />\n I will meditate on your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fix my eyes on your ways.<br />\n I will delight in your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not forget your word.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119017.02-2\">Deal bountifully with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may live and keep your word.<br />\n Open my eyes, that I may behold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.<br />\n I am a sojourner on the earth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hide not your commandments from me!<br />\n My soul is consumed with longing<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules at all times.<br />\n You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who wander from your commandments.<br />\n Take away from me scorn and contempt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have kept your testimonies.<br />\n Even though princes sit plotting against me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your servant will meditate on your statutes.<br />\n Your testimonies are my delight;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are my counselors.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119025.02-2\">My soul clings to the dust;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your word!<br />\n When I told of my ways, you answered me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!<br />\n Make me understand the way of your precepts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your wondrous works.<br />\n My soul melts away for sorrow;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>strengthen me according to your word!<br />\n Put false ways far from me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and graciously teach me your law!<br />\n I have chosen the way of faithfulness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I set your rules before me.<br />\n I cling to your testimonies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not be put to shame!<br />\n I will run in the way of your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when you enlarge my heart!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119033.02-2\">Teach me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the way of your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will keep it to the end.<br />\n Give me understanding, that I may keep your law<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and observe it with my whole heart.<br />\n Lead me in the path of your commandments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I delight in it.<br />\n Incline my heart to your testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to selfish gain!<br />\n Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give me life in your ways.<br />\n Confirm to your servant your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared.<br />\n Turn away the reproach that I dread,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules are good.<br />\n Behold, I long for your precepts;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your righteousness give me life!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119041.02-2\">Let your steadfast love come to me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your salvation according to your promise;<br />\n then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I trust in your word.<br />\n And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for my hope is in your rules.<br />\n I will keep your law continually,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever and ever,<br />\n and I shall walk in a wide place,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.<br />\n I will also speak of your testimonies before kings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall not be put to shame,<br />\n for I find my delight in your commandments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which I love.<br />\n I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119049.02-2\">Remember your word to your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in which you have made me hope.<br />\n This is my comfort in my affliction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that your promise gives me life.<br />\n The insolent utterly deride me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not turn away from your law.<br />\n When I think of your rules from of old,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I take comfort, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\n Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who forsake your law.<br />\n Your statutes have been my songs<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of my sojourning.<br />\n I remember your name in the night, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep your law.<br />\n This blessing has fallen to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have kept your precepts.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119057.02-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my portion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I promise to keep your words.<br />\n I entreat your favor with all my heart;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be gracious to me according to your promise.<br />\n When I think on my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;<br />\n I hasten and do not delay<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your commandments.<br />\n Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I do not forget your law.<br />\n At midnight I rise to praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of your righteous rules.<br />\n I am a companion of all who fear you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of those who keep your precepts.<br />\n The earth, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is full of your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119065.02-2\">You have dealt well with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word.<br />\n Teach me good judgment and knowledge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I believe in your commandments.<br />\n Before I was afflicted I went astray,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but now I keep your word.<br />\n You are good and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes.<br />\n The insolent smear me with lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;<br />\n their heart is unfeeling like fat,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I delight in your law.<br />\n It is good for me that I was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might learn your statutes.<br />\n The law of your mouth is better to me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than thousands of gold and silver pieces.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119073.02-2\">Your hands have made and fashioned me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.<br />\n Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I have hoped in your word.<br />\n I know, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that your rules are righteous,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.<br />\n Let your steadfast love comfort me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your promise to your servant.<br />\n Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law is my delight.<br />\n Let the insolent be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they have wronged me with falsehood;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.<br />\n Let those who fear you turn to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they may know your testimonies.<br />\n May my heart be blameless in your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119081.02-2\">My soul longs for your salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.<br />\n My eyes long for your promise;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I ask, “When will you comfort me?”<br />\n For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I have not forgotten your statutes.<br />\n How long must your servant endure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When will you judge those who persecute me?<br />\n The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not live according to your law.<br />\n All your commandments are sure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they persecute me with falsehood; help me!<br />\n They have almost made an end of me on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I have not forsaken your precepts.<br />\n In your steadfast love give me life,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119089.02-2\">Forever, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, your word<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is firmly fixed in the heavens.<br />\n Your faithfulness endures to all generations;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have established the earth, and it stands fast.<br />\n By your appointment they stand this day,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all things are your servants.<br />\n If your law had not been my delight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have perished in my affliction.<br />\n I will never forget your precepts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for by them you have given me life.<br />\n I am yours; save me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.<br />\n The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I consider your testimonies.<br />\n I have seen a limit to all perfection,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandment is exceedingly broad.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-2\">Oh how I love your law!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day.<br />\n Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is ever with me.<br />\n I have more understanding than all my teachers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your testimonies are my meditation.<br />\n I understand more than the aged,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I keep your precepts.<br />\n I hold back my feet from every evil way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in order to keep your word.<br />\n I do not turn aside from your rules,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have taught me.<br />\n How sweet are your words to my taste,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sweeter than honey to my mouth!<br />\n Through your precepts I get understanding;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119105.02-2\">Your word is a lamp to my feet<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a light to my path.<br />\n I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your righteous rules.<br />\n I am severely afflicted;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word!<br />\n Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your rules.<br />\n I hold my life in my hand continually,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not forget your law.<br />\n The wicked have laid a snare for me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not stray from your precepts.<br />\n Your testimonies are my heritage forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are the joy of my heart.<br />\n I incline my heart to perform your statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119113.02-2\">I hate the double-minded,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.<br />\n You are my hiding place and my shield;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.<br />\n Depart from me, you evildoers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the commandments of my God.<br />\n Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let me not be put to shame in my hope!<br />\n Hold me up, that I may be safe<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have regard for your statutes continually!<br />\n You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for their cunning is in vain.<br />\n All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I love your testimonies.<br />\n My flesh trembles for fear of you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am afraid of your judgments.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119121.02-2\">I have done what is just and right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not leave me to my oppressors.<br />\n Give your servant a pledge of good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let not the insolent oppress me.<br />\n My eyes long for your salvation<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.<br />\n Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.<br />\n I am your servant; give me understanding,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may know your testimonies!<br />\n It is time for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to act,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law has been broken.<br />\n Therefore I love your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>above gold, above fine gold.<br />\n Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119129.02-2\">Your testimonies are wonderful;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore my soul keeps them.<br />\n The unfolding of your words gives light;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it imparts understanding to the simple.<br />\n I open my mouth and pant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I long for your commandments.<br />\n Turn to me and be gracious to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as is your way with those who love your name.<br />\n Keep steady my steps according to your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let no iniquity get dominion over me.<br />\n Redeem me from man's oppression,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep your precepts.<br />\n Make your face shine upon your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.<br />\n My eyes shed streams of tears,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because people do not keep your law.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119137.02-2\">Righteous are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and right are your rules.<br />\n You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in all faithfulness.<br />\n My zeal consumes me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because my foes forget your words.<br />\n Your promise is well tried,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your servant loves it.<br />\n I am small and despised,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I do not forget your precepts.<br />\n Your righteousness is righteous forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is true.<br />\n Trouble and anguish have found me out,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandments are my delight.<br />\n Your testimonies are righteous forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may live.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119145.02-2\">With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will keep your statutes.<br />\n I call to you; save me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may observe your testimonies.<br />\n I rise before dawn and cry for help;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your words.<br />\n My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may meditate on your promise.<br />\n Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your justice give me life.<br />\n They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are far from your law.<br />\n But you are near, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all your commandments are true.<br />\n Long have I known from your testimonies<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you have founded them forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119153.02-2\">Look on my affliction and deliver me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your law.<br />\n Plead my cause and redeem me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your promise!<br />\n Salvation is far from the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they do not seek your statutes.<br />\n Great is your mercy, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your rules.<br />\n Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not swerve from your testimonies.<br />\n I look at the faithless with disgust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they do not keep your commands.<br />\n Consider how I love your precepts!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give me life according to your steadfast love.<br />\n The sum of your word is truth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119161.04-2\">Princes persecute me without cause,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my heart stands in awe of your words.<br />\n I rejoice at your word<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like one who finds great spoil.<br />\n I hate and abhor falsehood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.<br />\n Seven times a day I praise you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your righteous rules.<br />\n Great peace have those who love your law;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nothing can make them stumble.<br />\n I hope for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I do your commandments.<br />\n My soul keeps your testimonies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I love them exceedingly.<br />\n I keep your precepts and testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all my ways are before you.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119169.02-2\">Let my cry come before you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding according to your word!<br />\n Let my plea come before you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>deliver me according to your word.<br />\n My lips will pour forth praise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you teach me your statutes.<br />\n My tongue will sing of your word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all your commandments are right.<br />\n Let your hand be ready to help me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have chosen your precepts.<br />\n I long for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is my delight.<br />\n Let my soul live and praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let your rules help me.<br />\n I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-3\">Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-4\">Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-1\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!<br />\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all his hosts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers, who do his will!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001014.01-2\">Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What do we pray for in the third petition?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"In the third petition, (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,<sup id='fnref:wlc1'><a href='#fn:wlc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup>) acknowledging, that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God,<sup id='fnref:wlc2'><a href='#fn:wlc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> but prone to rebel against his Word,<sup id='fnref:wlc3'><a href='#fn:wlc3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> to repine and murmur against his providence,<sup id='fnref:wlc4'><a href='#fn:wlc4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil:<sup id='fnref:wlc5'><a href='#fn:wlc5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup> we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness,<sup id='fnref:wlc6'><a href='#fn:wlc6' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>6</a></sup> weakness,<sup id='fnref:wlc7'><a href='#fn:wlc7' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>7</a></sup> indisposedness,<sup id='fnref:wlc8'><a href='#fn:wlc8' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>8</a></sup> and perverseness of heart;<sup id='fnref:wlc9'><a href='#fn:wlc9' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>9</a></sup> and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things,<sup id='fnref:wlc10'><a href='#fn:wlc10' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>10</a></sup> with the like humility,<sup id='fnref:wlc11'><a href='#fn:wlc11' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>11</a></sup> cheerfulness,<sup id='fnref:wlc12'><a href='#fn:wlc12' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>12</a></sup> faithfulness,<sup id='fnref:wlc13'><a href='#fn:wlc13' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>13</a></sup> diligence,<sup id='fnref:wlc14'><a href='#fn:wlc14' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>14</a></sup> zeal,<sup id='fnref:wlc15'><a href='#fn:wlc15' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>15</a></sup> sincerity,<sup id='fnref:wlc16'><a href='#fn:wlc16' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>16</a></sup> and constancy,<sup id='fnref:wlc17'><a href='#fn:wlc17' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>17</a></sup> as the angels do in heaven.<sup id='fnref:wlc18'><a href='#fn:wlc18' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>18</a></sup>","citation":"WLC 192","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 192","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"192","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006010.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Your kingdom come,<br />\nyour will be done,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on earth as it is in heaven.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-1\">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18021014.01-2\">They say to God, ‘Depart from us!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002014.01-3\">The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008007.01-1\">For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02017007.01-1\">And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by saying, “Is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> among us or not?”</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 14:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04014002.01-2\">And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002002.01-1\">in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","6":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001017.01-1\">that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","7":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003016.01-1\">that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","8":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:40-41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026040.01-1\">And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, <span class=\"woc\">“So, could you not watch with me one hour?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","9":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 31:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031018.01-1\">I have heard Ephraim grieving,<br />\n‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like an untrained calf;<br />\nbring me back that I may be restored,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you are the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> my God.<br />\n For after I had turned away, I relented,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh;<br />\nI was ashamed, and I was confounded,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","10":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019014.01-1\">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be acceptable in your sight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, my rock and my redeemer.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44021014.01-2\">And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119001.10-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19119001-3\">119:1 </span> Blessed are those whose way is blameless,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who seek him with their whole heart,<br />\n who also do no wrong,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but walk in his ways!<br />\n You have commanded your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.<br />\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes!<br />\n Then I shall not be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.<br />\n I will praise you with an upright heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I learn your righteous rules.<br />\n I will keep your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not utterly forsake me!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119009.02-3\">How can a young man keep his way pure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>By guarding it according to your word.<br />\n With my whole heart I seek you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not wander from your commandments!<br />\n I have stored up your word in my heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you.<br />\n Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!<br />\n With my lips I declare<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the rules of your mouth.<br />\n In the way of your testimonies I delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as much as in all riches.<br />\n I will meditate on your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fix my eyes on your ways.<br />\n I will delight in your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not forget your word.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119017.02-3\">Deal bountifully with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may live and keep your word.<br />\n Open my eyes, that I may behold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.<br />\n I am a sojourner on the earth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hide not your commandments from me!<br />\n My soul is consumed with longing<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules at all times.<br />\n You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who wander from your commandments.<br />\n Take away from me scorn and contempt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have kept your testimonies.<br />\n Even though princes sit plotting against me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your servant will meditate on your statutes.<br />\n Your testimonies are my delight;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are my counselors.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119025.02-3\">My soul clings to the dust;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your word!<br />\n When I told of my ways, you answered me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!<br />\n Make me understand the way of your precepts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your wondrous works.<br />\n My soul melts away for sorrow;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>strengthen me according to your word!<br />\n Put false ways far from me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and graciously teach me your law!<br />\n I have chosen the way of faithfulness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I set your rules before me.<br />\n I cling to your testimonies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not be put to shame!<br />\n I will run in the way of your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when you enlarge my heart!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119033.02-3\">Teach me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the way of your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will keep it to the end.<br />\n Give me understanding, that I may keep your law<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and observe it with my whole heart.<br />\n Lead me in the path of your commandments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I delight in it.<br />\n Incline my heart to your testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to selfish gain!<br />\n Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give me life in your ways.<br />\n Confirm to your servant your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared.<br />\n Turn away the reproach that I dread,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules are good.<br />\n Behold, I long for your precepts;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your righteousness give me life!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119041.02-3\">Let your steadfast love come to me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your salvation according to your promise;<br />\n then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I trust in your word.<br />\n And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for my hope is in your rules.<br />\n I will keep your law continually,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever and ever,<br />\n and I shall walk in a wide place,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.<br />\n I will also speak of your testimonies before kings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall not be put to shame,<br />\n for I find my delight in your commandments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which I love.<br />\n I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119049.02-3\">Remember your word to your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in which you have made me hope.<br />\n This is my comfort in my affliction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that your promise gives me life.<br />\n The insolent utterly deride me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not turn away from your law.<br />\n When I think of your rules from of old,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I take comfort, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\n Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who forsake your law.<br />\n Your statutes have been my songs<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of my sojourning.<br />\n I remember your name in the night, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep your law.<br />\n This blessing has fallen to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have kept your precepts.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119057.02-3\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my portion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I promise to keep your words.<br />\n I entreat your favor with all my heart;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be gracious to me according to your promise.<br />\n When I think on my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;<br />\n I hasten and do not delay<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your commandments.<br />\n Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I do not forget your law.<br />\n At midnight I rise to praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of your righteous rules.<br />\n I am a companion of all who fear you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of those who keep your precepts.<br />\n The earth, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is full of your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119065.02-3\">You have dealt well with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word.<br />\n Teach me good judgment and knowledge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I believe in your commandments.<br />\n Before I was afflicted I went astray,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but now I keep your word.<br />\n You are good and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes.<br />\n The insolent smear me with lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;<br />\n their heart is unfeeling like fat,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I delight in your law.<br />\n It is good for me that I was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might learn your statutes.<br />\n The law of your mouth is better to me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than thousands of gold and silver pieces.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119073.02-3\">Your hands have made and fashioned me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.<br />\n Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I have hoped in your word.<br />\n I know, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that your rules are righteous,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.<br />\n Let your steadfast love comfort me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your promise to your servant.<br />\n Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law is my delight.<br />\n Let the insolent be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they have wronged me with falsehood;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.<br />\n Let those who fear you turn to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they may know your testimonies.<br />\n May my heart be blameless in your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119081.02-3\">My soul longs for your salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.<br />\n My eyes long for your promise;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I ask, “When will you comfort me?”<br />\n For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I have not forgotten your statutes.<br />\n How long must your servant endure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When will you judge those who persecute me?<br />\n The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not live according to your law.<br />\n All your commandments are sure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they persecute me with falsehood; help me!<br />\n They have almost made an end of me on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I have not forsaken your precepts.<br />\n In your steadfast love give me life,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119089.02-3\">Forever, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, your word<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is firmly fixed in the heavens.<br />\n Your faithfulness endures to all generations;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have established the earth, and it stands fast.<br />\n By your appointment they stand this day,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all things are your servants.<br />\n If your law had not been my delight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have perished in my affliction.<br />\n I will never forget your precepts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for by them you have given me life.<br />\n I am yours; save me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.<br />\n The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I consider your testimonies.<br />\n I have seen a limit to all perfection,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandment is exceedingly broad.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-3\">Oh how I love your law!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day.<br />\n Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is ever with me.<br />\n I have more understanding than all my teachers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your testimonies are my meditation.<br />\n I understand more than the aged,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I keep your precepts.<br />\n I hold back my feet from every evil way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in order to keep your word.<br />\n I do not turn aside from your rules,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have taught me.<br />\n How sweet are your words to my taste,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sweeter than honey to my mouth!<br />\n Through your precepts I get understanding;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119105.02-3\">Your word is a lamp to my feet<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a light to my path.<br />\n I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your righteous rules.<br />\n I am severely afflicted;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word!<br />\n Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your rules.<br />\n I hold my life in my hand continually,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not forget your law.<br />\n The wicked have laid a snare for me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not stray from your precepts.<br />\n Your testimonies are my heritage forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are the joy of my heart.<br />\n I incline my heart to perform your statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119113.02-3\">I hate the double-minded,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.<br />\n You are my hiding place and my shield;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.<br />\n Depart from me, you evildoers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the commandments of my God.<br />\n Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let me not be put to shame in my hope!<br />\n Hold me up, that I may be safe<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have regard for your statutes continually!<br />\n You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for their cunning is in vain.<br />\n All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I love your testimonies.<br />\n My flesh trembles for fear of you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am afraid of your judgments.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119121.02-3\">I have done what is just and right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not leave me to my oppressors.<br />\n Give your servant a pledge of good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let not the insolent oppress me.<br />\n My eyes long for your salvation<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.<br />\n Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.<br />\n I am your servant; give me understanding,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may know your testimonies!<br />\n It is time for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to act,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law has been broken.<br />\n Therefore I love your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>above gold, above fine gold.<br />\n Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119129.02-3\">Your testimonies are wonderful;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore my soul keeps them.<br />\n The unfolding of your words gives light;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it imparts understanding to the simple.<br />\n I open my mouth and pant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I long for your commandments.<br />\n Turn to me and be gracious to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as is your way with those who love your name.<br />\n Keep steady my steps according to your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let no iniquity get dominion over me.<br />\n Redeem me from man's oppression,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep your precepts.<br />\n Make your face shine upon your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.<br />\n My eyes shed streams of tears,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because people do not keep your law.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119137.02-3\">Righteous are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and right are your rules.<br />\n You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in all faithfulness.<br />\n My zeal consumes me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because my foes forget your words.<br />\n Your promise is well tried,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your servant loves it.<br />\n I am small and despised,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I do not forget your precepts.<br />\n Your righteousness is righteous forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is true.<br />\n Trouble and anguish have found me out,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandments are my delight.<br />\n Your testimonies are righteous forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may live.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119145.02-3\">With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will keep your statutes.<br />\n I call to you; save me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may observe your testimonies.<br />\n I rise before dawn and cry for help;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your words.<br />\n My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may meditate on your promise.<br />\n Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your justice give me life.<br />\n They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are far from your law.<br />\n But you are near, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all your commandments are true.<br />\n Long have I known from your testimonies<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you have founded them forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119153.02-3\">Look on my affliction and deliver me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your law.<br />\n Plead my cause and redeem me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your promise!<br />\n Salvation is far from the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they do not seek your statutes.<br />\n Great is your mercy, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your rules.<br />\n Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not swerve from your testimonies.<br />\n I look at the faithless with disgust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they do not keep your commands.<br />\n Consider how I love your precepts!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give me life according to your steadfast love.<br />\n The sum of your word is truth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119161.04-3\">Princes persecute me without cause,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my heart stands in awe of your words.<br />\n I rejoice at your word<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like one who finds great spoil.<br />\n I hate and abhor falsehood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.<br />\n Seven times a day I praise you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your righteous rules.<br />\n Great peace have those who love your law;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nothing can make them stumble.<br />\n I hope for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I do your commandments.<br />\n My soul keeps your testimonies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I love them exceedingly.<br />\n I keep your precepts and testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all my ways are before you.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119169.02-3\">Let my cry come before you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding according to your word!<br />\n Let my plea come before you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>deliver me according to your word.<br />\n My lips will pour forth praise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you teach me your statutes.<br />\n My tongue will sing of your word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all your commandments are right.<br />\n Let your hand be ready to help me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have chosen your precepts.<br />\n I long for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is my delight.<br />\n Let my soul live and praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let your rules help me.<br />\n I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-4\">Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-5\">Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","11":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Micah 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33006008.01-1\">He has told you, O man, what is good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and what does the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> require of you<br />\nbut to do justice, and to love kindness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to walk humbly with your God? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","12":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 100:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100002.01-1\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>Serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with gladness!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Come into his presence with singing!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p18001021.01-2\">And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> gave, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has taken away; blessed be the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 15:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10015025.01-3\">Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","13":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 38:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23038003.01-1\">and said, “Please, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","14":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119004.01-1\">You have commanded your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.<br />\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","15":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 69:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19069009.01-1\">For zeal for your house has consumed me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43002017.01-2\">His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012011.01-3\">Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","16":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joshua 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p06024014.06-1\">“Now therefore fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:80</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119080.01-2\">May my heart be blameless in your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005008.01-3\">Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47001012.05-4\">For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","17":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:112</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119112.01-1\">I incline my heart to perform your statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","18":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23006002.01-1\">Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23006003.08-1\">“Holy, holy, holy is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts;<br />\nthe whole earth is full of his glory!”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 103:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-2\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!<br />\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all his hosts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers, who do his will!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018010.07-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What do we pray for in the third petition?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Shorter Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>103.</em></span>\nWhat do we pray for in the third petition?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things,<sup id=\"fnref:wsc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> as the angels do in heaven.<sup id=\"fnref:wsc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be acceptable in your sight,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, my rock and my redeemer.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 119</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119001.10-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19119001-2\">119:1\u00a0</span> Blessed are those whose way is blameless,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!\n Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who seek him with their whole heart,\n who also do no wrong,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but walk in his ways!\n You have commanded your precepts\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes!\n Then I shall not be put to shame,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.\n I will praise you with an upright heart,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I learn your righteous rules.\n I will keep your statutes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not utterly forsake me!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119009.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">How can a young man keep his way pure?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>By guarding it according to your word.\n With my whole heart I seek you;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not wander from your commandments!\n I have stored up your word in my heart,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you.\n Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!\n With my lips I declare\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the rules of your mouth.\n In the way of your testimonies I delight\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as much as in all riches.\n I will meditate on your precepts\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fix my eyes on your ways.\n I will delight in your statutes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not forget your word.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119017.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Deal bountifully with your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may live and keep your word.\n Open my eyes, that I may behold\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.\n I am a sojourner on the earth;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hide not your commandments from me!\n My soul is consumed with longing\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules at all times.\n You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who wander from your commandments.\n Take away from me scorn and contempt,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have kept your testimonies.\n Even though princes sit plotting against me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your servant will meditate on your statutes.\n Your testimonies are my delight;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are my counselors.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119025.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">My soul clings to the dust;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your word!\n When I told of my ways, you answered me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!\n Make me understand the way of your precepts,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your wondrous works.\n My soul melts away for sorrow;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>strengthen me according to your word!\n Put false ways far from me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and graciously teach me your law!\n I have chosen the way of faithfulness;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I set your rules before me.\n I cling to your testimonies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not be put to shame!\n I will run in the way of your commandments\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when you enlarge my heart!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119033.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Teach me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the way of your statutes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will keep it to the end.\n Give me understanding, that I may keep your law\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and observe it with my whole heart.\n Lead me in the path of your commandments,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I delight in it.\n Incline my heart to your testimonies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to selfish gain!\n Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give me life in your ways.\n Confirm to your servant your promise,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared.\n Turn away the reproach that I dread,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules are good.\n Behold, I long for your precepts;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your righteousness give me life!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119041.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let your steadfast love come to me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your salvation according to your promise;\n then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I trust in your word.\n And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for my hope is in your rules.\n I will keep your law continually,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever and ever,\n and I shall walk in a wide place,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.\n I will also speak of your testimonies before kings\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall not be put to shame,\n for I find my delight in your commandments,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which I love.\n I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119049.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Remember your word to your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in which you have made me hope.\n This is my comfort in my affliction,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that your promise gives me life.\n The insolent utterly deride me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not turn away from your law.\n When I think of your rules from of old,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I take comfort, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.\n Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who forsake your law.\n Your statutes have been my songs\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of my sojourning.\n I remember your name in the night, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep your law.\n This blessing has fallen to me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have kept your precepts.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119057.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my portion;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I promise to keep your words.\n I entreat your favor with all my heart;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be gracious to me according to your promise.\n When I think on my ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;\n I hasten and do not delay\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your commandments.\n Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I do not forget your law.\n At midnight I rise to praise you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of your righteous rules.\n I am a companion of all who fear you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of those who keep your precepts.\n The earth, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is full of your steadfast love;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119065.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You have dealt well with your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word.\n Teach me good judgment and knowledge,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I believe in your commandments.\n Before I was afflicted I went astray,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but now I keep your word.\n You are good and do good;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes.\n The insolent smear me with lies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;\n their heart is unfeeling like fat,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I delight in your law.\n It is good for me that I was afflicted,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might learn your statutes.\n The law of your mouth is better to me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than thousands of gold and silver pieces.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119073.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Your hands have made and fashioned me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.\n Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I have hoped in your word.\n I know, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that your rules are righteous,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.\n Let your steadfast love comfort me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your promise to your servant.\n Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law is my delight.\n Let the insolent be put to shame,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they have wronged me with falsehood;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.\n Let those who fear you turn to me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they may know your testimonies.\n May my heart be blameless in your statutes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119081.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">My soul longs for your salvation;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.\n My eyes long for your promise;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I ask, \u201cWhen will you comfort me?\u201d\n For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I have not forgotten your statutes.\n How long must your servant endure?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When will you judge those who persecute me?\n The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not live according to your law.\n All your commandments are sure;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they persecute me with falsehood; help me!\n They have almost made an end of me on earth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I have not forsaken your precepts.\n In your steadfast love give me life,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119089.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Forever, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, your word\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is firmly fixed in the heavens.\n Your faithfulness endures to all generations;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have established the earth, and it stands fast.\n By your appointment they stand this day,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all things are your servants.\n If your law had not been my delight,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have perished in my affliction.\n I will never forget your precepts,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for by them you have given me life.\n I am yours; save me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.\n The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I consider your testimonies.\n I have seen a limit to all perfection,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandment is exceedingly broad.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Oh how I love your law!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day.\n Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is ever with me.\n I have more understanding than all my teachers,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your testimonies are my meditation.\n I understand more than the aged,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I keep your precepts.\n I hold back my feet from every evil way,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in order to keep your word.\n I do not turn aside from your rules,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have taught me.\n How sweet are your words to my taste,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sweeter than honey to my mouth!\n Through your precepts I get understanding;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119105.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Your word is a lamp to my feet\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a light to my path.\n I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your righteous rules.\n I am severely afflicted;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word!\n Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your rules.\n I hold my life in my hand continually,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not forget your law.\n The wicked have laid a snare for me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not stray from your precepts.\n Your testimonies are my heritage forever,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are the joy of my heart.\n I incline my heart to perform your statutes\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119113.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I hate the double-minded,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.\n You are my hiding place and my shield;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.\n Depart from me, you evildoers,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the commandments of my God.\n Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let me not be put to shame in my hope!\n Hold me up, that I may be safe\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have regard for your statutes continually!\n You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for their cunning is in vain.\n All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I love your testimonies.\n My flesh trembles for fear of you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am afraid of your judgments.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119121.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I have done what is just and right;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not leave me to my oppressors.\n Give your servant a pledge of good;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let not the insolent oppress me.\n My eyes long for your salvation\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.\n Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.\n I am your servant; give me understanding,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may know your testimonies!\n It is time for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to act,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law has been broken.\n Therefore I love your commandments\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>above gold, above fine gold.\n Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119129.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Your testimonies are wonderful;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore my soul keeps them.\n The unfolding of your words gives light;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it imparts understanding to the simple.\n I open my mouth and pant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I long for your commandments.\n Turn to me and be gracious to me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as is your way with those who love your name.\n Keep steady my steps according to your promise,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let no iniquity get dominion over me.\n Redeem me from man's oppression,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep your precepts.\n Make your face shine upon your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.\n My eyes shed streams of tears,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because people do not keep your law.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119137.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Righteous are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and right are your rules.\n You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in all faithfulness.\n My zeal consumes me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because my foes forget your words.\n Your promise is well tried,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your servant loves it.\n I am small and despised,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I do not forget your precepts.\n Your righteousness is righteous forever,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is true.\n Trouble and anguish have found me out,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandments are my delight.\n Your testimonies are righteous forever;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may live.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119145.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will keep your statutes.\n I call to you; save me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may observe your testimonies.\n I rise before dawn and cry for help;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your words.\n My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may meditate on your promise.\n Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your justice give me life.\n They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are far from your law.\n But you are near, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all your commandments are true.\n Long have I known from your testimonies\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you have founded them forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119153.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Look on my affliction and deliver me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your law.\n Plead my cause and redeem me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your promise!\n Salvation is far from the wicked,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they do not seek your statutes.\n Great is your mercy, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your rules.\n Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not swerve from your testimonies.\n I look at the faithless with disgust,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they do not keep your commands.\n Consider how I love your precepts!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give me life according to your steadfast love.\n The sum of your word is truth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119161.04-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Princes persecute me without cause,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my heart stands in awe of your words.\n I rejoice at your word\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like one who finds great spoil.\n I hate and abhor falsehood,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.\n Seven times a day I praise you\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your righteous rules.\n Great peace have those who love your law;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nothing can make them stumble.\n I hope for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I do your commandments.\n My soul keeps your testimonies;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I love them exceedingly.\n I keep your precepts and testimonies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all my ways are before you.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119169.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let my cry come before you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding according to your word!\n Let my plea come before you;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>deliver me according to your word.\n My lips will pour forth praise,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you teach me your statutes.\n My tongue will sing of your word,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all your commandments are right.\n Let your hand be ready to help me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have chosen your precepts.\n I long for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is my delight.\n Let my soul live and praise you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let your rules help me.\n I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p52005023.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 103:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all his hosts,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers, who do his will!</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001014.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n\n <h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Larger Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>192.</em></span>\nWhat do we pray for in the third petition?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> In the third petition, (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup>) acknowledging, that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> but prone to rebel against his Word,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc3\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> to repine and murmur against his providence,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc4\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil:<sup id=\"fnref:wlc5\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup> we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc6\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc6\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">6</a></sup> weakness,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc7\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc7\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">7</a></sup> indisposedness,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc8\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc8\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">8</a></sup> and perverseness of heart;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc9\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc9\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">9</a></sup> and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc10\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc10\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">10</a></sup> with the like humility,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc11\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc11\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">11</a></sup> cheerfulness,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc12\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc12\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">12</a></sup> faithfulness,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc13\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc13\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">13</a></sup> diligence,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc14\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc14\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">14</a></sup> zeal,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc15\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc15\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">15</a></sup> sincerity,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc16\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc16\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">16</a></sup> and constancy,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc17\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc17\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">17</a></sup> as the angels do in heaven.<sup id=\"fnref:wlc18\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc18\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">18</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006010.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">Your kingdom come,\nyour will be done,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on earth as it is in heaven.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42011002.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cWhen you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cFather, hallowed be your name.\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45007018.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18021014.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They say to God, \u2018Depart from us!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46002014.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45008007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02017007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by saying, \u201cIs the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> among us or not?\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Numbers 14:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p04014002.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, \u201cWould that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ephesians 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p49002002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience\u2014 (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:6\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ephesians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p49001017.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:7\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ephesians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p49003016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:8\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 26:40-41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026040.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cSo, could you not watch with me one hour?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:9\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 31:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031018.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I have heard Ephraim grieving,\n\u2018You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like an untrained calf;\nbring me back that I may be restored,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you are the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> my God.\n For after I had turned away, I relented,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh;\nI was ashamed, and I was confounded,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I bore the disgrace of my youth.\u2019 (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:10\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be acceptable in your sight,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, my rock and my redeemer.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44021014.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, \u201cLet the will of the Lord be done.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 119</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119001.10-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19119001-3\">119:1\u00a0</span> Blessed are those whose way is blameless,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!\n Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who seek him with their whole heart,\n who also do no wrong,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but walk in his ways!\n You have commanded your precepts\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes!\n Then I shall not be put to shame,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.\n I will praise you with an upright heart,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I learn your righteous rules.\n I will keep your statutes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not utterly forsake me!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119009.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">How can a young man keep his way pure?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>By guarding it according to your word.\n With my whole heart I seek you;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not wander from your commandments!\n I have stored up your word in my heart,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you.\n Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!\n With my lips I declare\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the rules of your mouth.\n In the way of your testimonies I delight\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as much as in all riches.\n I will meditate on your precepts\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fix my eyes on your ways.\n I will delight in your statutes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not forget your word.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119017.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Deal bountifully with your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may live and keep your word.\n Open my eyes, that I may behold\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.\n I am a sojourner on the earth;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hide not your commandments from me!\n My soul is consumed with longing\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules at all times.\n You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who wander from your commandments.\n Take away from me scorn and contempt,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have kept your testimonies.\n Even though princes sit plotting against me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your servant will meditate on your statutes.\n Your testimonies are my delight;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are my counselors.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119025.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">My soul clings to the dust;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your word!\n When I told of my ways, you answered me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!\n Make me understand the way of your precepts,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your wondrous works.\n My soul melts away for sorrow;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>strengthen me according to your word!\n Put false ways far from me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and graciously teach me your law!\n I have chosen the way of faithfulness;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I set your rules before me.\n I cling to your testimonies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not be put to shame!\n I will run in the way of your commandments\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when you enlarge my heart!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119033.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Teach me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the way of your statutes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will keep it to the end.\n Give me understanding, that I may keep your law\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and observe it with my whole heart.\n Lead me in the path of your commandments,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I delight in it.\n Incline my heart to your testimonies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to selfish gain!\n Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give me life in your ways.\n Confirm to your servant your promise,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared.\n Turn away the reproach that I dread,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules are good.\n Behold, I long for your precepts;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your righteousness give me life!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119041.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let your steadfast love come to me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your salvation according to your promise;\n then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I trust in your word.\n And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for my hope is in your rules.\n I will keep your law continually,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever and ever,\n and I shall walk in a wide place,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.\n I will also speak of your testimonies before kings\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall not be put to shame,\n for I find my delight in your commandments,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which I love.\n I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119049.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Remember your word to your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in which you have made me hope.\n This is my comfort in my affliction,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that your promise gives me life.\n The insolent utterly deride me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not turn away from your law.\n When I think of your rules from of old,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I take comfort, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.\n Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who forsake your law.\n Your statutes have been my songs\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of my sojourning.\n I remember your name in the night, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep your law.\n This blessing has fallen to me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have kept your precepts.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119057.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my portion;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I promise to keep your words.\n I entreat your favor with all my heart;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be gracious to me according to your promise.\n When I think on my ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;\n I hasten and do not delay\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your commandments.\n Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I do not forget your law.\n At midnight I rise to praise you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of your righteous rules.\n I am a companion of all who fear you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of those who keep your precepts.\n The earth, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is full of your steadfast love;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119065.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You have dealt well with your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word.\n Teach me good judgment and knowledge,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I believe in your commandments.\n Before I was afflicted I went astray,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but now I keep your word.\n You are good and do good;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes.\n The insolent smear me with lies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;\n their heart is unfeeling like fat,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I delight in your law.\n It is good for me that I was afflicted,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might learn your statutes.\n The law of your mouth is better to me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than thousands of gold and silver pieces.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119073.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Your hands have made and fashioned me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.\n Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I have hoped in your word.\n I know, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that your rules are righteous,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.\n Let your steadfast love comfort me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your promise to your servant.\n Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law is my delight.\n Let the insolent be put to shame,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they have wronged me with falsehood;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.\n Let those who fear you turn to me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they may know your testimonies.\n May my heart be blameless in your statutes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119081.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">My soul longs for your salvation;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.\n My eyes long for your promise;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I ask, \u201cWhen will you comfort me?\u201d\n For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I have not forgotten your statutes.\n How long must your servant endure?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When will you judge those who persecute me?\n The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not live according to your law.\n All your commandments are sure;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they persecute me with falsehood; help me!\n They have almost made an end of me on earth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I have not forsaken your precepts.\n In your steadfast love give me life,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119089.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Forever, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, your word\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is firmly fixed in the heavens.\n Your faithfulness endures to all generations;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have established the earth, and it stands fast.\n By your appointment they stand this day,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all things are your servants.\n If your law had not been my delight,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have perished in my affliction.\n I will never forget your precepts,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for by them you have given me life.\n I am yours; save me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.\n The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I consider your testimonies.\n I have seen a limit to all perfection,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandment is exceedingly broad.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Oh how I love your law!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day.\n Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is ever with me.\n I have more understanding than all my teachers,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your testimonies are my meditation.\n I understand more than the aged,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I keep your precepts.\n I hold back my feet from every evil way,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in order to keep your word.\n I do not turn aside from your rules,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have taught me.\n How sweet are your words to my taste,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sweeter than honey to my mouth!\n Through your precepts I get understanding;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119105.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Your word is a lamp to my feet\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a light to my path.\n I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your righteous rules.\n I am severely afflicted;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word!\n Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your rules.\n I hold my life in my hand continually,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not forget your law.\n The wicked have laid a snare for me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not stray from your precepts.\n Your testimonies are my heritage forever,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are the joy of my heart.\n I incline my heart to perform your statutes\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119113.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I hate the double-minded,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.\n You are my hiding place and my shield;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.\n Depart from me, you evildoers,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the commandments of my God.\n Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let me not be put to shame in my hope!\n Hold me up, that I may be safe\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have regard for your statutes continually!\n You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for their cunning is in vain.\n All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I love your testimonies.\n My flesh trembles for fear of you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am afraid of your judgments.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119121.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I have done what is just and right;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not leave me to my oppressors.\n Give your servant a pledge of good;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let not the insolent oppress me.\n My eyes long for your salvation\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.\n Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.\n I am your servant; give me understanding,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may know your testimonies!\n It is time for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to act,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law has been broken.\n Therefore I love your commandments\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>above gold, above fine gold.\n Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119129.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Your testimonies are wonderful;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore my soul keeps them.\n The unfolding of your words gives light;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it imparts understanding to the simple.\n I open my mouth and pant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I long for your commandments.\n Turn to me and be gracious to me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as is your way with those who love your name.\n Keep steady my steps according to your promise,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let no iniquity get dominion over me.\n Redeem me from man's oppression,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep your precepts.\n Make your face shine upon your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.\n My eyes shed streams of tears,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because people do not keep your law.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119137.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Righteous are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and right are your rules.\n You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in all faithfulness.\n My zeal consumes me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because my foes forget your words.\n Your promise is well tried,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your servant loves it.\n I am small and despised,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I do not forget your precepts.\n Your righteousness is righteous forever,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is true.\n Trouble and anguish have found me out,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandments are my delight.\n Your testimonies are righteous forever;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may live.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119145.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will keep your statutes.\n I call to you; save me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may observe your testimonies.\n I rise before dawn and cry for help;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your words.\n My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may meditate on your promise.\n Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your justice give me life.\n They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are far from your law.\n But you are near, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all your commandments are true.\n Long have I known from your testimonies\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you have founded them forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119153.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Look on my affliction and deliver me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your law.\n Plead my cause and redeem me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your promise!\n Salvation is far from the wicked,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they do not seek your statutes.\n Great is your mercy, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your rules.\n Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not swerve from your testimonies.\n I look at the faithless with disgust,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they do not keep your commands.\n Consider how I love your precepts!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give me life according to your steadfast love.\n The sum of your word is truth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119161.04-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Princes persecute me without cause,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my heart stands in awe of your words.\n I rejoice at your word\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like one who finds great spoil.\n I hate and abhor falsehood,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.\n Seven times a day I praise you\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your righteous rules.\n Great peace have those who love your law;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nothing can make them stumble.\n I hope for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I do your commandments.\n My soul keeps your testimonies;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I love them exceedingly.\n I keep your precepts and testimonies,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all my ways are before you.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119169.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let my cry come before you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding according to your word!\n Let my plea come before you;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>deliver me according to your word.\n My lips will pour forth praise,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you teach me your statutes.\n My tongue will sing of your word,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all your commandments are right.\n Let your hand be ready to help me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have chosen your precepts.\n I long for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is my delight.\n Let my soul live and praise you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let your rules help me.\n I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p52005023.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:11\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Micah 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33006008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He has told you, O man, what is good;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and what does the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> require of you\nbut to do justice, and to love kindness,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to walk humbly with your God? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:12\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 100:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>Serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with gladness!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Come into his presence with singing!</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p18001021.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he said, \u201cNaked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> gave, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has taken away; blessed be the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 15:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10015025.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then the king said to Zadok, \u201cCarry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, \u2018I have no pleasure in you,\u2019 behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:13\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 38:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p23038003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">and said, \u201cPlease, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.\u201d And Hezekiah wept bitterly. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:14\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 119:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You have commanded your precepts\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:15\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 69:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19069009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For zeal for your house has consumed me,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43002017.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">His disciples remembered that it was written, \u201cZeal for your house will consume me.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 12:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45012011.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:16\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Joshua 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p06024014.06-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cNow therefore fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 119:80</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119080.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">May my heart be blameless in your statutes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46005008.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Corinthians 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p47001012.05-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:17\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 119:112</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119112.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I incline my heart to perform your statutes\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:18\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p23006002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23006003.08-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHoly, holy, holy is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts;\nthe whole earth is full of his glory!\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 103:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all his hosts,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers, who do his will!</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 18:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40018010.07-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cSee that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"What do we pray for in the third petition?"}