I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.
I hope for your salvation, O Lord, and I do your commandments. My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly.
I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
“For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
I wait for your salvation, O Lord.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
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