I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

A prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

Say unto God, How awesome are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves unto you.

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: and their fate should have endured forever.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned unto me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the LORD.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,

Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, which you have attained.

Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength unto your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.

O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds.

Then he came to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain woman, who was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteems anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.