eSee ch. 59:12-15
Job 22:3
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,or is it gain to him if you amake your ways blameless?
Psalms 16:2-3
2I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;bI have no good apart from you.”
3 As for cthe saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight. ▼
▼Or To the saints in the land, the excellent in whom is all my delight, I say:
Isaiah 64:6
6 eWe have all become like one who is unclean,and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
fWe all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Romans 11:35
35“Or gwho has given a gift to himthat he might be repaid?”
1 Corinthians 9:16-17
16For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For hnecessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with ia stewardship.
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