Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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

Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.