12 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

⁴ Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

²³ O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

² The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

² The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

⁷ But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

¹¹ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,