One Year Bible.

I Will Set No Worthless Thing before My Eyes

¹A Psalm of David.

I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice;

to You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

²I will ponder the way that is blameless —

when will You come to me?

I will walk in my house

with integrity of heart.

³I will set no worthless thing

before my eyes.

I hate the work of those who fall away;

it shall not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me;

I will know nothing of evil.

⁵Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,

I will put to silence;

the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart,

I will not endure.

⁶My eyes favor the faithful of the land,

that they may dwell with me;

he who walks in the way of integrity

shall minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit

shall dwell in my house;

no one who tells lies

shall stand in my presence.

⁸Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land,

that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

Request for Prayer

¹Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread quickly and be held in honor, just as it was with you. ²And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith. ³But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. ⁴And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command. ⁵May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.

A Warning against Idleness

⁶Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us. ⁷For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you, ⁸nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you. ⁹Not that we lack this right, but we wanted to offer ourselves as an example for you to imitate. ¹⁰For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

¹¹For we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives, accomplishing nothing, but being busybodies. ¹²We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living. ¹³But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.

¹⁴Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed. ¹⁵Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Signature and Final Greetings

¹⁶Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.

¹⁷This greeting is in my own hand — Paul. This is my mark in every letter; it is the way I write.

¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you.

The LORD Surrounds His People

¹A song of ascents.

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion.

It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

²As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

so the LORD surrounds His people,

both now and forevermore.

³For the scepter of the wicked will not rest

upon the land allotted to the righteous,

so that the righteous will not put forth

their hands to injustice.

⁴Do good, O LORD, to those who are good,

and to the upright in heart.

⁵But those who turn to crooked ways

the LORD will banish with the evildoers.

Peace be upon Israel.