Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: {prepare: or, stablish}

And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

We love him, because he first loved us.

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of {our} faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. {author: or, beginner}

But this {shall be} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. {direct: or, guide}

But if we hope for that we see not, {then} do we with patience wait for {it}.

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: {conversation...: or, we live or conduct ourselves as citizens of heaven, or, for obtaining heaven}

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to {his} purpose.

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. {I waited...: Heb. In waiting I waited}

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? {of the: or, of that}

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; {glorious...: Gr. the appearance of the glory of the great God, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ}

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, {even} Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

{It is} good that {a man} should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

O LORD, I know that the way of man {is} not in himself: {it is} not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? {hasting...: or, hasting the coming}

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Knowing {this}, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

But if we hope for that we see not, {then} do we with patience wait for {it}.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of {our} soul {is} to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all {other}, and guided them on every side.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. {direct: or, guide}

I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;