The King of Glory

A Psalm of David.

1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one ^(A)of the priests who were in ^(B)Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, ² to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of ^(C)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in ^(D)the thirteenth year of his reign. ³ It came also in the days of ^(E)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and ^(F)until the end of the eleventh year of ^(G)Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, ^(H)until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

The Call of Jeremiah

⁴ Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

⁶ Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, ^(L)I do not know how to speak, ^(M)for I am only a youth.” ⁷ But the Lord said to me,

^9 (Q)Then the Lord put out his hand and ^(R)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

¹¹ For no one can lay a ^(A)foundation other ^(B)than that which is laid, ^(C)which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ^13 (D)each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed ^(E)by fire, and ^(F)the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴ If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, ^(G)he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, ^(H)but only as through fire.

^16 (I)Do you not know that you^[a] are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For ^(J)God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

^18 (K)Let no one deceive himself. ^(L)If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For ^(M)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, ^(N)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,” ²⁰ and again, ^(O)“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹ So ^(P)let no one boast in men. For ^(Q)all things are yours, ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, ²³ and ^(R)you are Christ's, and ^(S)Christ is God's.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

^31 (A)And his mother and his ^(B)brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. ³² And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers^[a] are outside, seeking you.” ³³ And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴ And ^(C)looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ^35 (D)For whoever ^(E)does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

The Parable of the Sower

4 Again ^(F)he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, ^(G)so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. ² And ^(H)he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ³ “Listen! Behold, ^(I)a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. ⁵ Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ⁶ And ^(J)when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, ^(K)it withered away. ⁷ Other seed fell among ^(L)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. ⁸ And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and ^(M)a hundredfold.” ⁹ And he said, ^(N)“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”