Psalm 86:8-13

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⁸Among the gods^(A) there is none like you,^(B) Lord;
    no deeds can compare with yours.
⁹All the nations you have made
    will come^(C) and worship^(D) before you, Lord;
    they will bring glory^(E) to your name.
¹⁰For you are great^(F) and do marvelous deeds;^(G)
    you alone^(H) are God.

¹¹Teach me your way,^(I) Lord,
    that I may rely on your faithfulness;^(J)
give me an undivided^(K) heart,
    that I may fear^(L) your name.
¹²I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;^(M)
    I will glorify your name forever.
¹³For great is your love toward me;
    you have delivered me^(N) from the depths,
    from the realm of the dead.^(O)

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Proverbs 19:15-17

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¹⁵Laziness brings on deep sleep,
and the shiftless go hungry.^(A)

¹⁶Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.^(B)

¹⁷Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,^(C)
and he will reward them for what they have done.^(D)

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Luke 8:22-25

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Jesus Calms the Storm^(A)^(B)

²²One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. ²³As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.

²⁴The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master,^(C) we’re going to drown!”

He got up and rebuked^(D) the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.^(E) ²⁵“Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples.

In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

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Colossians 3:1-11

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Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,^(A) set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.^(B) ²Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.^(C) ³For you died,^(D) and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is your^[a] life,^(E) appears,^(F) then you also will appear with him in glory.^(G)

⁵Put to death,^(H) therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:^(I) sexual immorality,^(J) impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,^(K) which is idolatry.^(L) ⁶Because of these, the wrath of God^(M) is coming.^[b] ⁷You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.^(N) ⁸But now you must also rid yourselves^(O) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,^(P) and filthy language from your lips.^(Q) ⁹Do not lie to each other,^(R) since you have taken off your old self^(S) with its practices ¹⁰and have put on the new self,^(T) which is being renewed^(U) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.^(V) ¹¹Here there is no Gentile or Jew,^(W) circumcised or uncircumcised,^(X) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,^(Y) but Christ is all,^(Z) and is in all.