98 Sing to the LORD a new song; for He has done marvelous things! His right hand and His holy arm have gotten Him the victory.

² The LORD declared His salvation. He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.

³ He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the House of Israel. All the ends of the Earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Sing loud to the LORD, all the Earth! Cry out and rejoice; and sing praises!

⁵ Sing praise to the LORD upon the harp, upon the harp with a singing voice.

⁶ With shofars and sound of trumpets sing loud before the LORD the King.

⁷ Let the sea roar and all that therein is, the world and those who dwell therein.

⁸ Let the floods clap their hands! Let the mountains rejoice together

⁹ before the LORD! For He has come to judge the Earth. With righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with equity.

22 A good name is to be chosen above great riches. And loving favor is above silver and above gold.

² The rich and poor meet together, the LORD the maker of them all.

³ A prudent man sees the plague and hides himself. But the foolish go on still, and are punished.

14 And it happened that when He had entered into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they watched Him.

² And behold, there was a certain man before Him who suffered from edema.

³ Then Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

⁴ And they held their peace. Then He took him and healed him and let him go.

⁵ And He answered them, saying, “Who of you shall have a donkey or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

⁶ And again they could not answer Him about those things.

⁷ He also spoke a parable to the guests when He noted how they selected the chief seats at the table, and said to them,

⁸ “When you shall be invited by anyone to a wedding, do not sit yourself down in the place of honor, lest a more honorable than you be invited.

⁹ “And the one who invited both you and him comes and says to you, ‘Give this man that place.’ And then you begin (with shame) to take the lowest place.

¹⁰ “But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place. So that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, sit up higher.’ Then you shall have honor in the presence of those who sit at table with you.

¹¹ “For whoever exalts himself, shall be brought low. And the one who humbles himself, shall be exalted.”

¹² Then He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or the rich neighbors, so that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made to you.

¹³ “But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

¹⁴ “And you shall be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you shall be recompensed at the Resurrection of the Just.”

3 Also know this: that perilous times shall come in the last days.

² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

³ hard-hearted, trucebreakers, slanderers, out of control, brutal, no lovers of good,

⁴ traitors, rash, haughty, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,

⁵ appearing to be godly but denying its power. And from such turn away!

⁶ For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate simple women laden with sins; led by diverse lusts,

⁷ always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the Truth.

⁸ And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these resist the Truth; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

⁹ But they shall no longer prevail. For their madness shall be evident to all, as theirs also was.