But we know that the law {is} good, if a man use it lawfully;

TZADDI. Righteous {art} thou, O LORD, and upright {are} thy judgments.

The law of the LORD {is} perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD {is} sure, making wise the simple. {law: or, doctrine} {converting: or, restoring}

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments {are} righteousness.

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: {true...: Heb. laws of truth}

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

And what nation {is there so} great, that hath statutes and judgments {so} righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

Thy word {is} very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. {pure: Heb. tried, or, refined}

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that {it is} good.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what {is} that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

All thy commandments {are} faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. {faithful: Heb. faithfulness}

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who {is devoted} to thy fear.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what {is} that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Every word of God {is} pure: he {is} a shield unto them that put their trust in him. {pure: Heb. purified}

But we know that the law {is} good, if a man use it lawfully;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that {it is} good.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of {his} brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

For the word of the LORD {is} right; and all his works {are done} in truth.

Thy word {is} very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. {pure: Heb. tried, or, refined}

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments {are} righteousness.

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make {it} honourable. {it: or, him}

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known {it}, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: {true...: Heb. laws of truth}

All thy commandments {are} faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. {faithful: Heb. faithfulness}

And what nation {is there so} great, that hath statutes and judgments {so} righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

They stand fast for ever and ever, {and are} done in truth and uprightness. {stand...: Heb. are established}

The statutes of the LORD {are} right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD {is} pure, enlightening the eyes.

I have written to him the great things of my law, {but} they were counted as a strange thing.

He looketh upon men, and {if any} say, I have sinned, and perverted {that which was} right, and it profited me not; {He...: or, He shall look upon men, and say}

Who {is} wise, and he shall understand these {things}? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD {are} right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

Therefore I esteem all {thy} precepts {concerning} all {things to be} right; {and} I hate every false way.

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away: