Holy Scripture

Psalms 118:5

A church father on this verse
“Therefore, if one examines these matters and because of this despises whatever is held in honor among people and longs only for the divine life, knowing that "all flesh is grass and all the glory of people is as the flower of grass," is he likely to think of grass, which exists today and is gone tomorrow, as something…”
Gregory of Nyssa, 4th c. — ON VIRIGINITY 4

Source: Septuagint

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5O that my ways were directed To keep thine ordinances.

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3For they that work iniquity Have not walked in his ways.

4Thou hast commanded us Diligently to keep thy precepts.

— Psalms 118:5 —

6Then shall I not be ashamed, When I have respect to all thy commandments.

7I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, When I have learned the judgments of thy righteousness.

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