Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

You, O Lord God, the invincible warrior, the God of Israel, rouse yourself and punish all the nations! Have no mercy on any treacherous evildoers! (Selah)

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

I will meditate on your precepts and focus on your behavior.

So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing -- the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!