Psalm 63:1-5

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My Soul Thirsts for You

A Psalm of David, ^(A)when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63 O God, you are my God; ^(B)earnestly I seek you;
    ^(C)my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
    as in ^(D)a dry and weary land where there is no water.
²So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
    beholding ^(E)your power and glory.
³Because your ^(F)steadfast love is better than life,
    my lips will praise you.
⁴So I will bless you ^(G)as long as I live;
    in your ^(H)name I will ^(I)lift up my hands.

⁵My soul will be ^(J)satisfied as with fat and rich food,
and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,

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Proverbs 14:6-8

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⁶^(A)A scoffer seeks wisdom ^(B)in vain,
    but ^(C)knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
⁷Leave the presence of a fool,
    for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
⁸The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way,
    but the folly of fools is deceiving.

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Mark 10:1-12

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Teaching About Divorce

10 ^(A)And he left there and went ^(B)to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

²And Pharisees came up and in order ^(C)to test him asked, ^(D)“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴They said, ^(E)“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” ⁵And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ^(F)hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶But ^(G)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^(H)male and female.’ ⁷^(I)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^[a] ⁸and ^(J)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹^(K)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

¹⁰And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. ¹¹And he said to them, ^(L)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, ¹²and ^(M)if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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Footnotes

Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife

1 Corinthians 14:20-25

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²⁰Brothers, ^(A)do not be children in your thinking. ^(B)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be ^(C)mature. ²¹^(D)In the Law it is written, ^(E)“By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” ²²Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign^[a] not for unbelievers but for believers. ²³If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, ^(F)will they not say that you are out of your minds? ²⁴But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, ²⁵^(G)the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, ^(H)falling on his face, he will worship God and ^(I)declare that God is really among you.