teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord! I have fled to you for refuge. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
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