Unfaithful people,
do you know not know
that friendship with the world
is hostility with God?
Whoever chooses to be a friend of the world,
makes themselves an enemy of God.
Or do you think that
in vain
the scripture says:
he yearns jealously over the spirit
which he has caused to dwell in us.
But he gives greater grace:
therefore it says
‘God opposes the proud
but to the humble gives grace.’
(Prov 3:34)
God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.