¹So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. ²And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ³Then he distributed to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. ⁴And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lᴏʀᴅ, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lᴏʀᴅ God of Israel: ⁵Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals; ⁶Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God. ⁷On that day David first delivered this psalm into the hand of Asaph and his brethren, to thank the Lᴏʀᴅ: ⁸Oh, give thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples! ⁹Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works! ¹⁰Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lᴏʀᴅ! ¹¹Seek the Lᴏʀᴅ and His strength; Seek His face evermore! ¹²Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth, ¹³O seed of Israel His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones! ¹⁴He is the Lᴏʀᴅ our God; His judgments are in all the earth. ¹⁵Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, ¹⁶The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, ¹⁷And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,” ¹⁹When you were few in number, Indeed very few, and strangers in it. ²⁰When they went from one nation to another, And from one kingdom to another people, ²¹He permitted no man to do them wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, ²²Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.” ²³Sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ, all the earth; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. ²⁴Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. ²⁵For the Lᴏʀᴅ is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods. ²⁶For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lᴏʀᴅ made the heavens. ²⁷Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and gladness are in His place. ²⁸Give to the Lᴏʀᴅ, O families of the peoples, Give to the Lᴏʀᴅ glory and strength. ²⁹Give to the Lᴏʀᴅ the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lᴏʀᴅ in the beauty of holiness! ³⁰Tremble before Him, all the earth. The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved. ³¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; And let them say among the nations, “The Lᴏʀᴅ reigns.” ³²Let the sea roar, and all its fullness; Let the field rejoice, and all that is in it. ³³Then the trees of the woods shall rejoice before the Lᴏʀᴅ, For He is coming to judge the earth. ³⁴Oh, give thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. ³⁵And say, “Save us, O God of our salvation; Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise.” ³⁶Blessed be the Lᴏʀᴅ God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lᴏʀᴅ. ³⁷So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the Lᴏʀᴅ to minister before the ark regularly, as every day’s work required; ³⁸and Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brethren, including Obed-Edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, to be gatekeepers; ³⁹and Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lᴏʀᴅ at the high place that was at Gibeon, ⁴⁰to offer burnt offerings to the Lᴏʀᴅ on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the Law of the Lᴏʀᴅ which He commanded Israel; ⁴¹and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were designated by name, to give thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ, because His mercy endures forever; ⁴²and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals and the musical instruments of God. Now the sons of Jeduthun were gatekeepers. ⁴³Then all the people departed, every man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

¹My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. ²For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. ³Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. ⁴Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. ⁵Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! ⁶And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. ⁷For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. ⁸But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. ¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. ¹¹Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? ¹²Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. ¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ¹⁶For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. ¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

¹The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lᴏʀᴅ God concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the Lᴏʀᴅ, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”): ²“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised. ³The pride of your heart has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ ⁴Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ. ⁵“If thieves had come to you, If robbers by night— Oh, how you will be cut off!— Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you, Would they not have left some gleanings? ⁶“Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after! ⁷All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you. No one is aware of it. ⁸“Will I not in that day,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ, “Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau? ⁹Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter. ¹⁰“For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever. ¹¹In the day that you stood on the other side— In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem— Even you were as one of them. ¹²But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress. ¹³You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity. ¹⁴You should not have stood at the crossroads To cut off those among them who escaped; Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained In the day of distress. ¹⁵“For the day of the Lᴏʀᴅ upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head. ¹⁶For as you drank on my holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been. ¹⁷“But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, And there shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. ¹⁸The house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau shall be stubble; They shall kindle them and devour them, And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,” For the Lᴏʀᴅ has spoken. ¹⁹The South shall possess the mountains of Esau, And the Lowland shall possess Philistia. They shall possess the fields of Ephraim And the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess Gilead. ²⁰And the captives of this host of the children of Israel Shall possess the land of the Canaanites As far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Shall possess the cities of the South. ²¹Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion To judge the mountains of Esau, And the kingdom shall be the Lᴏʀᴅ’s.

¹So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, ²and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. ³Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. ⁴When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” ⁵But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” ⁶And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. ⁷So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. ⁸When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” ⁹For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken; ¹⁰and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.” ¹¹So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him. ¹²And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” ¹³Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him. ¹⁴And He charged him to tell no one, “But go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as a testimony to them, just as Moses commanded.” ¹⁵However, the report went around concerning Him all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities. ¹⁶So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed. ¹⁷Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. ¹⁸Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. ¹⁹And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus. ²⁰When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” ²¹And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” ²²But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? ²³Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk’? ²⁴But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” ²⁵Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. ²⁶And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!” ²⁷After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” ²⁸So he left all, rose up, and followed Him. ²⁹Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them. ³⁰And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” ³³Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?” ³⁴And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. ³⁷And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. ³⁹And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”