Psalm 144:7-11

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⁷Reach down your hand from on high;^(A)
    deliver me and rescue me^(B)
from the mighty waters,^(C)
    from the hands of foreigners^(D)
⁸whose mouths are full of lies,^(E)
    whose right hands^(F) are deceitful.^(G)

⁹I will sing a new song^(H) to you, my God;
on the ten-stringed lyre^(I) I will make music to you,
¹⁰to the One who gives victory to kings,^(J)
who delivers his servant David.^(K)

From the deadly sword^(L) ¹¹deliver me;
rescue me^(M) from the hands of foreigners^(N)
whose mouths are full of lies,^(O)
whose right hands are deceitful.^(P)

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Proverbs 30:32-33

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³²“If you play the fool and exalt yourself,
    or if you plan evil,
    clap your hand over your mouth!^(A)
³³For as churning cream produces butter,
    and as twisting the nose produces blood,
    so stirring up anger produces strife.”

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John 18:25-27

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Peter’s Second and Third Denials^(A)

²⁵Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself.^(B) So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?”

He denied it, saying, “I am not.”^(C)

²⁶One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,^(D) challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?”^(E) ²⁷Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.^(F)

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Revelation 17:1-8

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Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast

17 One of the seven angels^(A) who had the seven bowls^(B) came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment^(C) of the great prostitute,^(D) who sits by many waters.^(E) ²With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”^(F)

³Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit^(G) into a wilderness.^(H) There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet^(I) beast that was covered with blasphemous names^(J) and had seven heads and ten horns.^(K) ⁴The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls.^(L) She held a golden cup^(M) in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.^(N) ⁵The name written on her forehead was a mystery:^(O)

babylon the great^(P)

the mother of prostitutes^(Q)

and of the abominations of the earth.

⁶I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people,^(R) the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. ⁷Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery^(S) of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.^(T) ⁸The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss^(U) and go to its destruction.^(V) The inhabitants of the earth^(W) whose names have not been written in the book of life^(X) from the creation of the world will be astonished^(Y) when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.