Psalm 144:9-15

Psalm 143 Psalm 145

Psalm 144:9-15 New International Version (NIV)

⁹I will sing a new song to you, my God;
on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
¹⁰to the One who gives victory to kings,
who delivers his servant David.

From the deadly sword ¹¹deliver me;
rescue me from the hands of foreigners
whose mouths are full of lies,
whose right hands are deceitful.

¹²Then our sons in their youth
    will be like well-nurtured plants,
and our daughters will be like pillars
    carved to adorn a palace.
¹³Our barns will be filled
    with every kind of provision.
Our sheep will increase by thousands,
    by tens of thousands in our fields;
¹⁴    our oxen will draw heavy loads.^[a]
There will be no breaching of walls,
    no going into captivity,
    no cry of distress in our streets.
¹⁵Blessed is the people of whom this is true;
    blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

Footnotes:

Psalm 144:14 Or our chieftains will be firmly established

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Song of Songs 8:5-7

Song of Songs 7 Isaiah 1

Song of Songs 8:5-7 New International Version (NIV)

Friends

⁵Who is this coming up from the wilderness
leaning on her beloved?

She

Under the apple tree I roused you;
    there your mother conceived you,
    there she who was in labor gave you birth.
⁶Place me like a seal over your heart,
    like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
    its jealousy^[a] unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
    like a mighty flame.^[b]
⁷Many waters cannot quench love;
    rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give
    all the wealth of one’s house for love,
    it^[c] would be utterly scorned.

Footnotes:

Song of Songs 8:6 Or ardor
Song of Songs 8:6 Or fire, / like the very flame of the Lord
Song of Songs 8:7 Or he

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Mark 7:9-23

Mark 6 Mark 8

Mark 7:9-23 New International Version (NIV)

⁹And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe^[a] your own traditions! ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’^[b] and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’^[c] ¹¹But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— ¹²then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. ¹³Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

¹⁴Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. ¹⁵Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” ^[16]^[d]

¹⁷After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. ¹⁸“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? ¹⁹For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

²⁰He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. ²¹For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, ²²adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. ²³All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”