For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanks to God.

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Then we will shout for joy over your victory; we will rejoice in the name of our God! May the Lord grant all your requests!

A song, a psalm by the Korahites. The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise in the city of our God, his holy hill.

“I thought, ‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by: ‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’

I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

to the saints, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you from God our Father!

Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.