Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
…and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.