1   O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger,            or discipline me in your wrath.  2   Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing;            O LORD, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.  3   My soul also is struck with terror,            while you, O LORD — how long? 4   Turn, O LORD, save my…

22Then they brought to him a demoniac who was blind and mute; and he cured him, so that the one who had been mute could speak and see. 23All the crowds were amazed and said, “Can this be the Son of David?” 24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the ruler…

10If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord just as I am; 11therefore let no one despise him. Send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brothers. 12Now concerning our…

1When the seventh month came, and the Israelites were in the towns, the people gathered together in Jerusalem. 2Then Jeshua son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel with his kin set out to build the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as prescribed in the…

“Kenneth Koch once said, “You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!”

1   I love the LORD, because he has heard            my voice and my supplications.  2   Because he inclined his ear to me,            therefore I will call on him as long as I live.  3   The snares of death encompassed me;            the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;            I suffered distress and anguish.  4   Then I called on the…

15 When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them, 16and he ordered them not to make him known. 17This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah:  18  “Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,            my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.       I…

1Now concerning the collection for the saints: you should follow the directions I gave to the churches of Galatia. 2On the first day of every week, each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collections need not be taken when I come. 3And when I arrive, I will send any…

1In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom, and also in a written edict declared: 2“Thus says…

“One can’t write about the soul. Looked at, it vanishes.”