Psalm 54

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The Lord Upholds My Life

To the choirmaster: with ^(A)stringed instruments. A Maskil^[a] of David, ^(B)when the Ziphites went and told Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?”

54 O God, save me by your ^(C)name,
and vindicate me by your might.
²O God, ^(D)hear my prayer;
give ear to the words of my mouth.

³^(E)For ^(F)strangers^[b] have risen against me;
ruthless men ^(G)seek my life;
they do not set God before themselves. Selah

⁴Behold, ^(H)God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life.
⁵He will return the evil to my enemies;
in your ^(I)faithfulness ^(J)put an end to them.

⁶With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you;
I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, ^(K)for it is good.
⁷For he has delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has ^(L)looked in triumph on my enemies.

Footnotes

Psalm 54:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 54:3 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Targum insolent men (compare Psalm 86:14)

James 3:16-4:6

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¹⁶For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. ¹⁷But ^(A)the wisdom from above is first pure, then ^(B)peaceable, gentle, open to reason, ^(C)full of mercy and good fruits, ^(D)impartial and ^(E)sincere. ¹⁸And ^(F)a harvest of righteousness ^(G)is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Warning Against Worldliness

4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions^[a] are ^(H)at war within you?^[b] ²You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^(I)wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ⁴^(J)You adulterous people!^[c] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(K)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^(L)that he has made to dwell in us”? ⁶But ^(M)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^(N)“God opposes the proud but ^(O)gives grace to the humble.”

Footnotes

James 4:1 Greek pleasures; also verse 3
James 4:1 Greek in your members
James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!

Mark 9:30-37

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Jesus Again Foretells Death, Resurrection

³⁰^(A)They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, ³¹for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, ^(B)after three days he will rise.” ³²^(C)But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

Who Is the Greatest?

³³And ^(D)they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house ^(E)he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” ³⁴But they kept silent, for on the way ^(F)they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. ³⁵And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, ^(G)“If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” ³⁶And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and ^(H)taking him in his arms, he said to them, ³⁷^(I)“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and ^(J)whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”