2:12Now therefore says the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.

13And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil.

14Who knows but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?

15Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,

16Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the leaders, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

17Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord's ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare your people: and give not your gift to shame, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?

18The Lord has been zealous for his land, and has spared his people.

51:3Have mercy on me, O God, according to your great mercy. And according to the crowd of your tender mercies blot out my sin.

4Wash me yet more from my sin, and cleanse me from my sin.

5For I know my sin, and my sin is always before me.

6To you only have I sinned, and have done evil before you: that you mayst be justified in your words and mayst overcome when you are judged.

12Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

13Cast me not away from your face; and take not your holy spirit from me.

14Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

17O Lord, you will open my lips: and my mouth shall declare your praise.

5:20For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

21Him, who knew no sin, he has made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

6:1And we helping do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

2For he says: In an accepted time have I heard you; and in the day of salvation have I helped you. Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation.

6:1Take heed that you do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.

2Therefore when you do an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

3But when you do charity, let not your left hand know what your right hand does.

4That your charity may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

5And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

6But you when you shall pray, enter into your chamber, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret: and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

16And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

17But you, when you fastest anoint your head, and wash your face;

18That you appear not to men to fast, but to your Father who is in secret: and your Father who sees in secret, will repay you.