Amor Próprio

9 But ye are the chosen generation, [a] royal priesthood, [a] holy nation, [an] acquired people, that ye should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and beauty.

17 Therefore, how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

18 [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with thee.

7 He raises up the poor out of the dust [and] lifts the destitute out of the dunghill;

8 that he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of his people.

7 And the LORD replied unto Samuel, Do not look on his countenance or on the height of his stature because I have refused him, for it is not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made; marvellous [are] thy works, and [that], my soul knows right well.