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Psalm 15 Prayed
Make me
more like Jesus
Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary?
Who
may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless
and
who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from
his heart
and
has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbour no
wrong
and
casts no slur on his fellowman,
who despises a vile man
but
honours those who fear the Lord,
who keeps his oath
even
when it hurts,
who lends his money
without usury
and
does not accept a bribe
against
the innocent.
He who does these things
will
never be shaken;
for the law is holy,
and
the commandment is holy,
righteous
and good.
The law is spiritual;
but
I am unspiritual,
sold
as a slave to sin.
I know that nothing good lives
in me,
that
is, in my sinful nature.
For I have the desire to do
what is good,
but
I cannot carry it out.
For what I do is not the good I
want to do;
no,
the evil I do not want to do—
this
I keep on doing.
What a wretched person I am!
Who
will rescue me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God—
through
Jesus Christ our Lord!
Hallelujah! For there is now no
condemnation
for me,
for
I am in Christ Jesus.
Through Christ Jesus the
law of the Spirit of life
has
set me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law was
powerless to do
in
that it was weakened by my sinful nature,
you,
O God, did by sending your own Son
in
the likeness of sinful man
to
be a sin offering.
And so you condemned sin in
sinful humanity,
in
order that the righteous requirements
of
the law might be fully met in me,
so that I might not live
according
to
the sinful nature
but
according to the Spirit.
You made Jesus who had no sin
to be sin for me,
so
that in him I might become
the
righteousness of God.
Therefore, make me more and
more like Jesus;
whose
walk was blameless
and
who did what is righteous,
who spoke the truth from his
heart
and
had no slander on his tongue,
nor
did he do his neighbour any wrong.
He cast no slur on his
fellowman,
he
despised vile men like the Pharisees,
and
honoured those who fear the Lord.
He kept his oath
even
when it hurt.
He made himself nothing,
taking
the very nature of a servant,
being
made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance
as a man,
he
humbled himself
and
became obedient to death—
even
death on a cross!
He lent his money without usury
and
did not accept a bribe against the innocent.
Make me like Jesus, O Lord,
and
I will never be shaken.
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Psalm 15 Prayed
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