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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
