Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

I will make my hands clean from sin so will I go round your altar, O Lord

Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

I have a safe resting-place for my feet I will give praise to the Lord in the meetings of the people.

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

By which you have salvation that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

And he was put in the place of the dead and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings

Then by more than five hundred brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, but some are sleeping

And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing for I did more work than all of them though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.

The last power to come to an end is death.

And when all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself be under him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all.

And why are we in danger every hour?

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.