1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from far away.3 You search out my path and my lying down,and are acquainted with all my ways.4 Even before a word is on my tongue,O LORD, you know it…

1At that time Herod the ruler heard reports about Jesus; 2and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers are at work in him.” 3For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias,…

6Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. 7But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8None of the rulers of this age understood this;…

8Blow the horn in Gibeah,the trumpet in Ramah.Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;look behind you, Benjamin!9Ephraim shall become a desolationon the day of punishment;among the tribes of IsraelI declare what is sure.10The princes of Judah have becomelike those who remove the landmark;on them I will pour outmy wrath like water.11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,because he…

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling placein all generations.2 Before the mountains were brought forth,or ever you had formed the earth and the world,from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3 You turn us back to dust,and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”4 For a thousand years in your sightare like yesterday when it is…

27″But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. 30Give to…

17″After I had returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance 18and saw Jesus saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’ 19And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and…

1Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor, 2and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will punish all of them. 3I know Ephraim, and Israel…

1 I waited patiently for the LORD;he inclined to me and heard my cry.2 He drew me up from the desolate pit,out of the miry bog,and set my feet upon a rock,making my steps secure.3 He put a new song in my mouth,a song of praise to our God.Many will see and fear,and put their…

12Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. 13And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: 14Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and…