You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith, for they trust in you.

Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt; I will cut off the hordes of Thebes.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.

When he left there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down.

When the disciples heard this, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there, watching from a distance.

Then they went to Capernaum. When the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him.

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

All their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

He fell with his face to the ground at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (Now he was a Samaritan.)

Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me,

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes –

You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”