Psalm 14

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The Fool Says, There Is No God

To the choirmaster. Of David.

14 ^(A)The ^(B)fool says in his heart, ^(C)“There is no God.”
They are ^(D)corrupt, they do abominable deeds;
^(E)there is none who does good.

²The Lord ^(F)looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,^[a]
who ^(G)seek after God.

³They have all turned aside; together they have become ^(H)corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

⁴Have they no ^(I)knowledge, all the evildoers
who ^(J)eat up my people as they eat bread
and ^(K)do not call upon the Lord?

⁵There they are in great terror,
for God is with ^(L)the generation of the righteous.
⁶You would shame the plans of the poor,
but^[b] the Lord is his ^(M)refuge.

⁷Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord ^(N)restores the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

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Isaiah 29:11-19

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¹¹And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is ^(A)sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” ¹²And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

¹³And the Lord said:
“Because ^(B)this people ^(C)draw near with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,
    while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
¹⁴therefore, behold, ^(D)I will again
    do wonderful things with this people,
    with wonder upon wonder;
and ^(E)the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
    and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”

¹⁵Ah, ^(F)you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,
    whose deeds are ^(G)in the dark,
    and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
¹⁶^(H)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
    “He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
    “He has no understanding”?

¹⁷Is it not yet a very little while
    ^(I)until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
¹⁸In that day ^(J)the deaf shall hear
    ^(K)the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
    ^(L)the eyes of the blind shall see.
¹⁹^(M)The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,
    and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

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Ephesians 5:22-33

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Wives and Husbands

²²^(A)Wives, ^(B)submit to your own husbands, ^(C)as to the Lord. ²³For ^(D)the husband is the head of the wife even as ^(E)Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is ^(F)himself its Savior. ²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit ^(G)in everything to their husbands.

²⁵^(H)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and ^(I)gave himself up for her, ²⁶that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by ^(J)the washing of water ^(K)with the word, ²⁷so ^(L)that he might present the church to himself in splendor, ^(M)without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.^[a] ²⁸In the same way ^(N)husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰because ^(O)we are members of his body. ³¹^(P)“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(Q)the two shall become one flesh.” ³²This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. ³³However, ^(R)let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she ^(S)respects her husband.