Psalm 119:97-104

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מ Mem

⁹⁷Oh, how I love your law!^(A)
    I meditate^(B) on it all day long.
⁹⁸Your commands are always with me
    and make me wiser^(C) than my enemies.
⁹⁹I have more insight than all my teachers,
    for I meditate on your statutes.^(D)
¹⁰⁰I have more understanding than the elders,
    for I obey your precepts.^(E)
¹⁰¹I have kept my feet^(F) from every evil path
    so that I might obey your word.^(G)
¹⁰²I have not departed from your laws,^(H)
    for you yourself have taught^(I) me.
¹⁰³How sweet are your words to my taste,
    sweeter than honey^(J) to my mouth!^(K)
¹⁰⁴I gain understanding^(L) from your precepts;
    therefore I hate every wrong path.^(M)

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Isaiah 33:10-16

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¹⁰“Now will I arise,^(A)” says the Lord.
    “Now will I be exalted;^(B)
    now will I be lifted up.
¹¹You conceive^(C) chaff,
    you give birth^(D) to straw;
    your breath is a fire^(E) that consumes you.
¹²The peoples will be burned to ashes;^(F)
    like cut thornbushes^(G) they will be set ablaze.^(H)”

¹³You who are far away,^(I) hear^(J) what I have done;
    you who are near, acknowledge my power!
¹⁴The sinners^(K) in Zion are terrified;
    trembling^(L) grips the godless:
“Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?^(M)
    Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
¹⁵Those who walk righteously^(N)
    and speak what is right,^(O)
who reject gain from extortion^(P)
    and keep their hands from accepting bribes,^(Q)
who stop their ears against plots of murder
    and shut their eyes^(R) against contemplating evil—
¹⁶they are the ones who will dwell on the heights,^(S)
    whose refuge^(T) will be the mountain fortress.^(U)
Their bread will be supplied,
    and water will not fail^(V) them.

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John 15:16-25

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¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you^(A) so that you might go and bear fruit^(B)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.^(C) ¹⁷This is my command: Love each other.^(D)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸“If the world hates you,^(E) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(F) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^(G) ²⁰Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a]^(H) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(I) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹They will treat you this way because of my name,^(J) for they do not know the one who sent me.^(K) ²²If I had not come and spoken to them,^(L) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^(M) ²³Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(N) they would not be guilty of sin.^(O) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(P) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[b]^(Q)