Psalm 119:161-168

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ש Sin and Shin

¹⁶¹Rulers persecute me^(A) without cause,
    but my heart trembles^(B) at your word.
¹⁶²I rejoice^(C) in your promise
    like one who finds great spoil.^(D)
¹⁶³I hate and detest^(E) falsehood
    but I love your law.^(F)
¹⁶⁴Seven times a day I praise you
    for your righteous laws.^(G)
¹⁶⁵Great peace^(H) have those who love your law,
    and nothing can make them stumble.^(I)
¹⁶⁶I wait for your salvation,^(J) Lord,
    and I follow your commands.
¹⁶⁷I obey your statutes,
    for I love them^(K) greatly.
¹⁶⁸I obey your precepts^(L) and your statutes,^(M)
    for all my ways are known^(N) to you.

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Proverbs 27:25-27

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²⁵When the hay is removed and new growth appears
    and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
²⁶the lambs will provide you with clothing,
    and the goats with the price of a field.
²⁷You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family
    and to nourish your female servants.

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John 8:21-30

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Dispute Over Who Jesus Is

²¹Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die^(A) in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”^(B)

²²This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”

²³But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.^(C) ²⁴I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he,^(D) you will indeed die in your sins.”

²⁵“Who are you?” they asked.

“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. ²⁶“I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy,^(E) and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”^(F)

²⁷They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. ²⁸So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up^[a] the Son of Man,^(G) then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.^(H) ²⁹The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone,^(I) for I always do what pleases him.”^(J) ³⁰Even as he spoke, many believed in him.^(K)

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Footnotes

John 8:28 The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.

3 John 1-8

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¹The elder,^(A)

To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

²Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. ³It gave me great joy when some believers^(B) came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it.^(C) ⁴I have no greater joy than to hear that my children^(D) are walking in the truth.^(E)

⁵Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,^[a]^(F) even though they are strangers to you.^(G) ⁶They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way^(H) in a manner that honors^(I) God. ⁷It was for the sake of the Name^(J) that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.^(K) ⁸We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.