One Year Bible.

To You I Lift Up My Soul

¹Of David.

To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

²in You, my God, I trust.

Do not let me be put to shame;

do not let my enemies exult over me.

³Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame;

but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

⁴Show me Your ways, O LORD;

teach me Your paths.

⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me,

for You are the God of my salvation;

all day long I wait for You.

⁶Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion,

for they are from age to age.

⁷Remember not the sins of my youth,

nor my rebellious acts;

remember me according to Your loving devotion,

because of Your goodness, O LORD.

⁸Good and upright is the LORD;

therefore He shows sinners the way.

⁹He guides the humble in what is right

and teaches them His way.

¹⁰All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful

to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O LORD,

forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

¹²Who is the man who fears the LORD?

He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.

¹³His soul will dwell in prosperity,

and his descendants will inherit the land.

¹⁴The LORD confides in those who fear Him,

and reveals His covenant to them.

¹⁵My eyes are always on the LORD,

for He will free my feet from the mesh.

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious,

for I am lonely and afflicted.

¹⁷The troubles of my heart increase;

free me from my distress.

¹⁸Consider my affliction and trouble,

and take away all my sins.

¹⁹Consider my enemies, for they are many,

and they hate me with vicious hatred.

²⁰Guard my soul and deliver me;

let me not be put to shame,

for I take refuge in You.

²¹May integrity and uprightness preserve me,

because I wait for You.

²²Redeem Israel, O God,

from all its distress.

Vindicate Me, O LORD

¹Of David.

Vindicate me, O LORD!

For I have walked with integrity;

I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

²Test me, O LORD, and try me;

examine my heart and mind.

³For Your loving devotion is before my eyes,

and I have walked in Your truth.

⁴I do not sit with deceitful men,

nor keep company with hypocrites.

⁵I hate the mob of evildoers,

and refuse to sit with the wicked.

⁶I wash my hands in innocence

that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

⁷to raise my voice in thanksgiving

and declare all Your wonderful works.

⁸O LORD, I love the house where You dwell,

the place where Your glory resides.

⁹Do not take my soul away with sinners,

or my life with men of bloodshed,

¹⁰in whose hands are wicked schemes,

whose right hands are full of bribes.

¹¹But I will walk with integrity;

redeem me and be merciful to me.

¹²My feet stand on level ground;

in the congregations I will bless the LORD.

The LORD Is on My Side

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;

His loving devotion endures forever.

²Let Israel say,

“His loving devotion endures forever.”

³Let the house of Aaron say,

“His loving devotion endures forever.”

⁴Let those who fear the LORD say,

“His loving devotion endures forever.”

⁵In my distress I called to the LORD,

and He answered and set me free.

⁶The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

⁷The LORD is on my side; He is my helper.

Therefore I will look in triumph on those who hate me.

⁸It is better to take refuge in the LORD

than to trust in man.

⁹It is better to take refuge in the LORD

than to trust in princes.

¹⁰All the nations surrounded me,

but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

¹¹They surrounded me on every side,

but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

¹²They swarmed around me like bees,

but they were extinguished like burning thorns;

in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

¹³I was pushed so hard I was falling,

but the LORD helped me.

¹⁴The LORD is my strength and my song,

and He has become my salvation.

¹⁵Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous:

“The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!

¹⁶The right hand of the LORD is exalted!

The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!”

¹⁷I will not die, but I will live

and proclaim what the LORD has done.

¹⁸The LORD disciplined me severely,

but He has not given me over to death.

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness,

that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.

²⁰This is the gate of the LORD;

the righteous shall enter through it.

²¹I will give You thanks, for You have answered me,

and You have become my salvation.

²²The stone the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.

²³This is from the LORD,

and it is marvelous in our eyes.

²⁴This is the day that the LORD has made;

we will rejoice and be glad in it.

²⁵O LORD, save us, we pray.

We beseech You, O LORD, cause us to prosper!

²⁶Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD.

From the house of the LORD we bless you.

²⁷The LORD is God;

He has made His light to shine upon us.

Bind the festal sacrifice with cords

to the horns of the altar.

²⁸You are my God, and I will give You thanks.

You are my God, and I will exalt You.

²⁹Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;

His loving devotion endures forever.

Jesus Our Advocate

¹My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father — Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. ²He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

³By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. ⁴If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: ⁶Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

A New Commandment

⁷Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard. ⁸Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

⁹If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness. ¹⁰Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him. ¹¹But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹²I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.

¹³I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning.

I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

¹⁴I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning.

I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world — the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not from the Father but from the world. ¹⁷The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

Beware of Antichrists

¹⁸Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

²⁰You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. ²¹I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. ²²Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. ²³Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

Remain in Christ

²⁴As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

²⁶I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. ²⁷And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

²⁸And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

²⁹If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.