Psalm 1

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Psalm 1

The Two Ways

¹How happy is the one who does not
walk in the advice of the wicked
or stand in the pathway with sinners
or sit in the company of mockers!^(A)
²Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.^(B)
³He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams^[a]
that bears its fruit in its season,^(C)
and its leaf does not wither.^(D)
Whatever he does prospers.^(E)

⁴The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.^(F)
⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment,^(G)
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,^(H)
but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.^(I)

Footnotes

1:3 Or beside irrigation channels

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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Reaching Forward to God’s Goal

¹²Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold^(A) of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³Brothers and sisters, I do not^[a] consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind^(B) and reaching forward to what is ahead, ¹⁴I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly^[b] call in Christ Jesus.^(C) ¹⁵Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal^(D) this also to you. ¹⁶In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. ¹⁷Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us. ¹⁸For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross^(E) of Christ. ¹⁹Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory^(F) is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things. ²⁰Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious^(G) body,^(H) by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.

4 So then, my dearly loved and longed for brothers and sisters, my joy and crown,^(I) in this manner stand firm^(J) in the Lord, dear friends.

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3:13 Other mss read not yet
3:14 Or upward

1 Corinthians 15:12-19

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Resurrection Essential to the Faith

¹²Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead,^(A) how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?^(B) ¹³If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised; ¹⁴and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain, and so is your faith.^[a] ¹⁵Moreover, we are found to be false witnesses^(C) about God, because we have testified^(D) wrongly about God that he raised up Christ—whom he did not raise up, if in fact the dead are not raised. ¹⁶For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. ¹⁷And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. ¹⁸Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ^(E) have also perished. ¹⁹If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

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15:14 Or proclamation is useless, and your faith also is useless, or proclamation is empty, and your faith also is empty

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