Jeremiah 17:5-10

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⁵Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man ^(A)who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,^[a]
    whose heart turns away from the Lord.
⁶^(B)He is like a shrub in the desert,
    ^(C)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in ^(D)an uninhabited salt land.

⁷^(E)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
    ^(F)whose trust is the Lord.
⁸^(G)He is like a tree planted by water,
    that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
    for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
    for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
¹⁰^(H)“I the Lord search the heart
    ^(I)and test the mind,^[b]
^(J)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

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Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys

Psalm 1

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Book One

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

1 Blessed is the man^[a]
    who ^(A)walks not in ^(B)the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in ^(C)the way of sinners,
    nor ^(D)sits in ^(E)the seat of ^(F)scoffers;
²but his ^(G)delight is in the law^[b] of the Lord,
    and on his ^(H)law he meditates day and night.

³He is like ^(I)a tree
    planted by ^(J)streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its ^(K)leaf does not wither.
^(L)In all that he does, he prospers.
⁴The wicked are not so,
    but are like ^(M)chaff that the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the wicked ^(N)will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in ^(O)the congregation of the righteous;
⁶for the Lord ^(P)knows ^(Q)the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

Footnotes

Psalm 1:1 The singular Hebrew word for man (ish) is used here to portray a representative example of a godly person; see Preface
Psalm 1:2 Or instruction

1 Corinthians 15:12-20

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The Resurrection of the Dead

¹²Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, ^(A)how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³But if there is no resurrection of the dead, ^(B)then not even Christ has been raised. ¹⁴And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. ¹⁵We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that ^(C)he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. ¹⁶For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. ¹⁷And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and ^(D)you are still in your sins. ¹⁸Then those also who ^(E)have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹If in Christ we have hope^[a] in this life only, ^(F)we are of all people most to be pitied.

²⁰But in fact ^(G)Christ has been raised from the dead, ^(H)the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

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1 Corinthians 15:19 Or we have hoped

Luke 6:17-26

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Jesus Ministers to a Great Multitude

¹⁷And ^(A)he came down with them and stood on a level place, with ^(B)a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of ^(C)Tyre and Sidon, ¹⁸who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. ^(D)And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. ¹⁹And all the crowd ^(E)sought to touch him, for ^(F)power came out from him and healed them all.

The Beatitudes

²⁰And ^(G)he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, ^(H)and said:

“Blessed are you who are poor, for ^(I)yours is the kingdom of God.

²¹^(J)“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.

^(K)“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

²²“Blessed are you when ^(L)people hate you and when they ^(M)exclude you and revile you and ^(N)spurn your name as evil, ^(O)on account of the Son of Man! ²³^(P)Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for ^(Q)so their fathers did to the prophets.