A psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for help! Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me!

Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land.

The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.

(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

“‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the Lord. That person must be cut off from among his people.

Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; wild goats will bleat to one another. Yes, nocturnal animals will rest there and make for themselves a nest.

Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.