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1. STEADFAST WAYS

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless
Who walk according to the law of the Lord

Blessed are those who keep his statutes
And seek him with all their heart

They do no wrong
But follow his ways

You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed
Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!

Then I would not be put to shame
When I consider all your commands

I will praise you with an upright heart
As I learn your righteous laws

I will obey your decrees
Do not forsake me

You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed
Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees!


2. ENDURES FOREVER

Praise the Lord, all you nations
Extol him, all you peoples

For great is his love toward us
And the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever

Praise the Lord


ABANDONED MORTUARY

3. BLIND GUIDES

You honour God with your lips
But your hearts are far from him
You worship him in vain
Your teachings are merely human rules

Woe to you
Because you are like unmarked graves
Which people walk over
Without knowing it
Woe to you
Because you load people down
With burdens they can hardly carry
And you yourselves won’t help them

You blind guides!
You strain out a gnat
But swallow a camel

You travel over land and sea to win a single convert
And when you have succeeded,
You make them twice as much a child of hell as you are

Woe to you, you hypocrites!
You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven
In people’s faces
You yourselves
Do not enter
Nor will you let those enter
Who are trying to

You snakes!
You brood of vipers!
How will you escape being condemned to hell?

You will be assigned a place with the hypocrites
Where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth

Woe to you, you hypocrites!
You are like whitewashed tombs
Which look beautiful on the outside
But on the inside are
Full of everything unclean
In the same way
You are full of
Hypocrisy and wickedness


4. THE WORD

In the beginning was the Word
And the Word was with God
And the Word was God
He was with God in the beginning

Through him all things were made
Without him nothing was made that has been made

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it