Psalm 147:12-20

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¹²Extol the Lord, Jerusalem;^(A)
praise your God, Zion.

¹³He strengthens the bars of your gates^(B)
and blesses your people^(C) within you.
¹⁴He grants peace^(D) to your borders
and satisfies you^(E) with the finest of wheat.^(F)

¹⁵He sends his command^(G) to the earth;
    his word runs^(H) swiftly.
¹⁶He spreads the snow^(I) like wool
    and scatters the frost^(J) like ashes.
¹⁷He hurls down his hail^(K) like pebbles.
    Who can withstand his icy blast?
¹⁸He sends his word^(L) and melts them;
    he stirs up his breezes,^(M) and the waters flow.

¹⁹He has revealed his word^(N) to Jacob,^(O)
his laws and decrees^(P) to Israel.
²⁰He has done this for no other nation;^(Q)
they do not know^(R) his laws.^[a]

Praise the Lord.^(S)

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Footnotes

Psalm 147:20 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint nation; / he has not made his laws known to them

Proverbs 31:19-21

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¹⁹In her hand she holds the distaff
    and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
²⁰She opens her arms to the poor
    and extends her hands to the needy.^(A)
²¹When it snows, she has no fear for her household;
    for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

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John 20:19-23

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Jesus Appears to His Disciples

¹⁹On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders,^(A) Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace^(B) be with you!”^(C) ²⁰After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.^(D) The disciples were overjoyed^(E) when they saw the Lord.

²¹Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you!^(F) As the Father has sent me,^(G) I am sending you.”^(H) ²²And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.^(I) ²³If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”^(J)

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Revelation 21:1-8

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A New Heaven and a New Earth

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^[a]^(A) for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,^(B) and there was no longer any sea. ²I saw the Holy City,^(C) the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^(D) prepared as a bride^(E) beautifully dressed for her husband. ³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.^(F) They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.^(G) ⁴‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes.^(H) There will be no more death’^[b]^(I) or mourning or crying or pain,^(J) for the old order of things has passed away.”^(K)

⁵He who was seated on the throne^(L) said, “I am making everything new!”^(M) Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”^(N)

⁶He said to me: “It is done.^(O) I am the Alpha and the Omega,^(P) the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost^(Q) from the spring of the water of life.^(R) ⁷Those who are victorious^(S) will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.^(T) ⁸But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars^(U)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.^(V) This is the second death.”^(W)