Psalm 51:12-19

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¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation^(A)
and grant me a willing spirit,^(B) to sustain me.^(C)

¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways,^(D)
    so that sinners^(E) will turn back to you.^(F)
¹⁴Deliver me^(G) from the guilt of bloodshed,^(H) O God,
    you who are God my Savior,^(I)
    and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.^(J)
¹⁵Open my lips, Lord,^(K)
    and my mouth will declare your praise.
¹⁶You do not delight in sacrifice,^(L) or I would bring it;
    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
¹⁷My sacrifice,^(M) O God, is^[a] a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart^(N)
    you, God, will not despise.

¹⁸May it please you to prosper Zion,^(O)
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.^(P)
¹⁹Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,^(Q)
    in burnt offerings^(R) offered whole;
    then bulls^(S) will be offered on your altar.

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Footnotes

Psalm 51:17 Or The sacrifices of God are

Proverbs 12:3-4

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³No one can be established through wickedness,
but the righteous cannot be uprooted.^(A)

⁴A wife of noble character^(B) is her husband’s crown,
but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.^(C)

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Mark 5:1-13

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Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man^(A)^(B)

5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.^[a] ²When Jesus got out of the boat,^(C) a man with an impure spirit^(D) came from the tombs to meet him. ³This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. ⁴For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. ⁵Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

⁶When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. ⁷He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me,^(E) Jesus, Son of the Most High God?^(F) In God’s name don’t torture me!” ⁸For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!”

⁹Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,”^(G) he replied, “for we are many.” ¹⁰And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.

¹¹A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. ¹²The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” ¹³He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

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Mark 5:1 Some manuscripts Gadarenes; other manuscripts Gergesenes

1 Corinthians 2:10-16

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¹⁰these are the things God has revealed^(A) to us by his Spirit.^(B)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹For who knows a person’s thoughts^(C) except their own spirit^(D) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²What we have received is not the spirit^(E) of the world,^(F) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom^(G) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.^[a] ¹⁴The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(H) but considers them foolishness,^(I) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵The person with the Spirit^(J) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶for,