MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.