Psalm 119:97-120

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Mem

⁹⁷Oh how ^(A)I love your law!
    It is my ^(B)meditation all the day.
⁹⁸Your commandment makes me ^(C)wiser than my enemies,
    for it is ever with me.
⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers,
    for ^(D)your testimonies are my meditation.
¹⁰⁰I understand more than ^(E)the aged,^[a]
    for I ^(F)keep your precepts.
¹⁰¹I ^(G)hold back my feet from every evil way,
    in order to keep your word.
¹⁰²I do not turn aside from your rules,
    for you have taught me.
¹⁰³How ^(H)sweet are your words to my taste,
    sweeter than honey to my mouth!
¹⁰⁴Through your precepts I get understanding;
    therefore ^(I)I hate every false way.

Nun

¹⁰⁵^(J)Your word is a lamp to my feet
    and a light to my path.
¹⁰⁶I have ^(K)sworn an oath and confirmed it,
    to keep your ^(L)righteous rules.
¹⁰⁷I am severely ^(M)afflicted;
    ^(N)give me life, O Lord, according to your word!
¹⁰⁸Accept ^(O)my freewill offerings of praise, O Lord,
    and ^(P)teach me your rules.
¹⁰⁹I hold my life ^(Q)in my hand continually,
    but I do not ^(R)forget your law.
¹¹⁰The wicked have laid ^(S)a snare for me,
    but ^(T)I do not stray from your precepts.
¹¹¹Your testimonies are ^(U)my heritage forever,
    for they are ^(V)the joy of my heart.
¹¹²I ^(W)incline my heart to perform your statutes
    forever, ^(X)to the end.^[b]

Samekh

¹¹³I hate ^(Y)the double-minded,
    but I love ^(Z)your law.
¹¹⁴You are my ^(AA)hiding place and my ^(AB)shield;
    I ^(AC)hope in your word.
¹¹⁵^(AD)Depart from me, you evildoers,
    that I may ^(AE)keep the commandments of my God.
¹¹⁶Uphold me ^(AF)according to your promise, that I may live,
    and let me not be ^(AG)put to shame in my ^(AH)hope!
¹¹⁷^(AI)Hold me up, that I may be safe
    and have regard for your statutes continually!
¹¹⁸You ^(AJ)spurn all who ^(AK)go astray from your statutes,
    for their cunning is in vain.
¹¹⁹All the wicked of the earth you discard like ^(AL)dross,
    therefore ^(AM)I love your testimonies.
¹²⁰My flesh ^(AN)trembles for fear of you,
    and I am afraid of your judgments.

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Footnotes

Psalm 119:100 Or the elders
Psalm 119:112 Or statutes; the reward is eternal

Jeremiah 8:18-9:6

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Jeremiah Grieves for His People

¹⁸My joy is gone; grief is upon me;^[a]
    ^(A)my heart is sick within me.
¹⁹Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from ^(B)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    ^(C)Is her King not in her?”
^(D)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”
²⁰“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
    and we are not saved.”
²¹For the wound of ^(E)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    ^(F)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

²²Is there no ^(G)balm in Gilead?
    Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
    not been restored?
9 ^[b] ^(H)Oh that my head were waters,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of ^(I)the daughter of my people!
²^[c] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all ^(J)adulterers,
    a company of ^(K)treacherous men.
³^(L)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong^[d] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    ^(M)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

⁴^(N)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every ^(O)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor ^(P)goes about as a slanderer.
⁵Everyone deceives his neighbor,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
    they weary themselves committing iniquity.
⁶Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
    ^(Q)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 8:18 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong

Romans 5:1-11

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Peace with God Through Faith

5 ^(A)Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, ^(B)we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²Through him we have also ^(C)obtained access by faith^[b] into this grace ^(D)in which we stand, and ^(E)we^[c] rejoice^[d] in hope of the glory of God. ³Not only that, but we ^(F)rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering ^(G)produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵and ^(H)hope does not put us to shame, because God's love ^(I)has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

⁶For ^(J)while we were still weak, at the right time ^(K)Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— ⁸but ^(L)God shows his love for us in that ^(M)while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹Since, therefore, ^(N)we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from ^(O)the wrath of God. ¹⁰For if ^(P)while we were enemies ^(Q)we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by ^(R)his life. ¹¹More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received ^(S)reconciliation.

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Romans 5:1 Some manuscripts let us
Romans 5:2 Some manuscripts omit by faith
Romans 5:2 Or let us; also verse 3
Romans 5:2 Or boast; also verses 3, 11

John 8:12-20

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I Am the Light of the World

¹²^(A)Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^(B)“I am the light of the world. Whoever ^(C)follows me will not ^(D)walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³So the Pharisees said to him, ^(E)“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^(F)my testimony is true, for I know ^(G)where I came from and ^(H)where I am going, but ^(I)you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵^(J)You judge according to the flesh; ^(K)I judge no one. ¹⁶Yet even if I do judge, ^(L)my judgment is true, for ^(M)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[a] who sent me. ¹⁷^(N)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(O)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(P)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(Q)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰These words he spoke in ^(R)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(S)no one arrested him, because ^(T)his hour had not yet come.