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Psalm 100

A psalm. For giving thanks.

 ² Worship the LORD with gladness;
       come before him with joyful songs.

 ³ Know that the LORD is God.
       It is he who made us, and we are his ^[a] ;
       we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

 ⁴ Enter his gates with thanksgiving
       and his courts with praise;
       give thanks to him and praise his name.

 ⁵ For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
       his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 101

Of David. A psalm.

 ² I will be careful to lead a blameless life—
       when will you come to me?
       I will walk in my house
       with blameless heart.

 ³ I will set before my eyes
       no vile thing.
       The deeds of faithless men I hate;
       they will not cling to me.

 ⁴ Men of perverse heart shall be far from me;
       I will have nothing to do with evil.

 ⁵ Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,
       him will I put to silence;
       whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
       him will I not endure.

 ⁶ My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
       that they may dwell with me;
       he whose walk is blameless
       will minister to me.

 ⁷ No one who practices deceit
       will dwell in my house;
       no one who speaks falsely
       will stand in my presence.

 ⁸ Every morning I will put to silence
       all the wicked in the land;
       I will cut off every evildoer
       from the city of the LORD.

Psalm 102

A prayer of an afflicted man. When he is faint and pours out his lament before the LORD.

 ² Do not hide your face from me
       when I am in distress.
       Turn your ear to me;
       when I call, answer me quickly.

 ³ For my days vanish like smoke;
       my bones burn like glowing embers.

 ⁴ My heart is blighted and withered like grass;
       I forget to eat my food.

 ⁵ Because of my loud groaning
       I am reduced to skin and bones.

 ⁶ I am like a desert owl,
       like an owl among the ruins.

 ⁷ I lie awake; I have become
       like a bird alone on a roof.

 ⁸ All day long my enemies taunt me;
       those who rail against me use my name as a curse.

 ⁹ For I eat ashes as my food
       and mingle my drink with tears

 ¹⁰ because of your great wrath,
       for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.

 ¹¹ My days are like the evening shadow;
       I wither away like grass.

 ¹² But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever;
       your renown endures through all generations.

 ¹³ You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
       for it is time to show favor to her;
       the appointed time has come.

 ¹⁴ For her stones are dear to your servants;
       her very dust moves them to pity.

 ¹⁵ The nations will fear the name of the LORD,
       all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.

 ¹⁶ For the LORD will rebuild Zion
       and appear in his glory.

 ¹⁷ He will respond to the prayer of the destitute;
       he will not despise their plea.

 ¹⁸ Let this be written for a future generation,
       that a people not yet created may praise the LORD :

 ¹⁹ "The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high,
       from heaven he viewed the earth,

 ²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners
       and release those condemned to death."

 ²¹ So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion
       and his praise in Jerusalem

 ²² when the peoples and the kingdoms
       assemble to worship the LORD.

 ²³ In the course of my life ^[b] he broke my strength;
       he cut short my days.

 ²⁴ So I said:
       "Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days;
       your years go on through all generations.

 ²⁵ In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth,
       and the heavens are the work of your hands.

 ²⁶ They will perish, but you remain;
       they will all wear out like a garment.
       Like clothing you will change them
       and they will be discarded.

 ²⁷ But you remain the same,
       and your years will never end.

 ²⁸ The children of your servants will live in your presence;
       their descendants will be established before you."

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1 Corinthians 1

 ¹Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

 ²To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

 ³Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving

Divisions in the Church

 ¹³Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into^[b] the name of Paul? ¹⁴I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, ¹⁵so no one can say that you were baptized into my name. ¹⁶(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone else.) ¹⁷For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

 ²⁰Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. ²²Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, ²³but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, ²⁴but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

 ²⁶Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹so that no one may boast before him. ³⁰It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. ³¹Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."^[d]