¹Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lᴏʀᴅ, and spoke, saying: “I will sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea! ²The Lᴏʀᴅ is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him. ³The Lᴏʀᴅ is a man of war; The Lᴏʀᴅ is His name. ⁴Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. ⁵The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone. ⁶“Your right hand, O Lᴏʀᴅ, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O Lᴏʀᴅ, has dashed the enemy in pieces. ⁷And in the greatness of Your excellence You have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath; It consumed them like stubble. ⁸And with the blast of Your nostrils The waters were gathered together; The floods stood upright like a heap; The depths congealed in the heart of the sea. ⁹The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, My hand shall destroy them.’ ¹⁰You blew with Your wind, The sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹“Who is like You, O Lᴏʀᴅ, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? ¹²You stretched out Your right hand; The earth swallowed them. ¹³You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation. ¹⁴“The people will hear and be afraid; Sorrow will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia. ¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, Trembling will take hold of them; All the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away. ¹⁶Fear and dread will fall on them; By the greatness of Your arm They will be as still as a stone, Till Your people pass over, O Lᴏʀᴅ, Till the people pass over Whom You have purchased. ¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lᴏʀᴅ, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lᴏʀᴅ, which Your hands have established. ¹⁸“The Lᴏʀᴅ shall reign forever and ever.” ¹⁹For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the Lᴏʀᴅ brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. ²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. ²¹And Miriam answered them: “Sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ, For He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!” ²²So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. ²³Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. ²⁴And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵So he cried out to the Lᴏʀᴅ, and the Lᴏʀᴅ showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them, ²⁶and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lᴏʀᴅ your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lᴏʀᴅ who heals you.” ²⁷Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.

¹Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, ²saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. ³Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ ⁴And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, ⁵yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ” ⁶Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. ⁷And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? ⁸I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” ⁹Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ¹²I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ ¹³And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ ¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” ¹⁵Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. ¹⁶But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁷Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.” ¹⁸Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” ¹⁹So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. ²⁰You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ” ²¹And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.” ²²So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” ²³But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich. ²⁴And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” ²⁶And those who heard it said, “Who then can be saved?” ²⁷But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” ²⁸Then Peter said, “See, we have left all and followed You.” ²⁹So He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, ³⁰who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.” ³¹Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. ³²For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. ³³They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.” ³⁴But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things which were spoken. ³⁵Then it happened, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. ³⁶And hearing a multitude passing by, he asked what it meant. ³⁷So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. ³⁸And he cried out, saying, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” ³⁹Then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” ⁴⁰So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to Him. And when he had come near, He asked him, ⁴¹saying, “What do you want Me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” ⁴²Then Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.” ⁴³And immediately he received his sight, and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

¹“But please, Job, hear my speech, And listen to all my words. ²Now, I open my mouth; My tongue speaks in my mouth. ³My words come from my upright heart; My lips utter pure knowledge. ⁴The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life. ⁵If you can answer me, Set your words in order before me; Take your stand. ⁶Truly I am as your spokesman before God; I also have been formed out of clay. ⁷Surely no fear of me will terrify you, Nor will my hand be heavy on you. ⁸“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the sound of your words, saying, ⁹‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me. ¹⁰Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy; ¹¹He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths.’ ¹²“Look, in this you are not righteous. I will answer you, For God is greater than man. ¹³Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give an accounting of any of His words. ¹⁴For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it. ¹⁵In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds, ¹⁶Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction. ¹⁷In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man, ¹⁸He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword. ¹⁹“Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones, ²⁰So that his life abhors bread, And his soul succulent food. ²¹His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones stick out which once were not seen. ²²Yes, his soul draws near the Pit, And his life to the executioners. ²³“If there is a messenger for him, A mediator, one among a thousand, To show man His uprightness, ²⁴Then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom’; ²⁵His flesh shall be young like a child’s, He shall return to the days of his youth. ²⁶He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him, He shall see His face with joy, For He restores to man His righteousness. ²⁷Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’ ²⁸He will redeem his soul from going down to the Pit, And his life shall see the light. ²⁹“Behold, God works all these things, Twice, in fact, three times with a man, ³⁰To bring back his soul from the Pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of life. ³¹“Give ear, Job, listen to me; Hold your peace, and I will speak. ³²If you have anything to say, answer me; Speak, for I desire to justify you. ³³If not, listen to me; Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

¹Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? ²You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; ³clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. ⁴And we have such trust through Christ toward God. ⁵Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, ⁶who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. ⁷But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, ⁸how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? ⁹For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. ¹⁰For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. ¹¹For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. ¹²Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— ¹³unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. ¹⁴But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. ¹⁵But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. ¹⁶Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. ¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ¹⁸But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.