In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A ^(A)Miktam^[a] of David, when the ^(B)Philistines seized him in Gath.

Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to ^(A)Do Not Destroy. A ^(B)Miktam^[a] of David, when he fled from Saul, in ^(C)the cave.

⁴⁶ Joseph was thirty years old when he ^(A)entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷ During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, ⁴⁸ and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. ⁴⁹ And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, ^(B)like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

⁵⁰ Before the year of famine came, ^(C)two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. ⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”^{[a] 52} The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has ^(D)made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”^[b]

⁵³ The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, ⁵⁴ and ^(E)the seven years of famine began to come, ^(F)as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

⁵⁶ So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses^[c] and ^(G)sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe ^(H)over all the earth.

⁸ Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! ⁹ For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, ^(A)like men sentenced to death, because we ^(B)have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. ^10 (C)We are fools for Christ's sake, but ^(D)you are wise in Christ. ^(E)We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. ¹¹ To the present hour ^(F)we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and ^(G)buffeted and ^(H)homeless, ¹² and we ^(I)labor, working with our own hands. ^(J)When reviled, we bless; ^(K)when persecuted, we endure; ¹³ when slandered, we entreat. ^(L)We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, ^(M)the refuse of all things.

¹⁴ I do not write these things ^(N)to make you ashamed, but to admonish you ^(O)as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For ^(P)though you have countless^[a] guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For ^(Q)I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. ¹⁶ I urge you, then, ^(R)be imitators of me. ¹⁷ That is why ^(S)I sent^[b] you Timothy, ^(T)my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,^{[c] (U)}as I teach them everywhere in every church. ¹⁸ Some are ^(V)arrogant, ^(W)as though I were not coming to you. ¹⁹ But ^(X)I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. ²⁰ For ^(Y)the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. ²¹ What do you wish? ^(Z)Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

^7 (A)Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ^(B)a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea ⁸ and Jerusalem and ^(C)Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around ^(D)Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. ⁹ And he told his disciples to ^(E)have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ^(F)crush him, ¹⁰ for ^(G)he had healed many, so that all who had ^(H)diseases pressed around him ^(I)to touch him. ^11 (J)And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they ^(K)fell down before him and cried out, “You are ^(L)the Son of God.” ¹² And ^(M)he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

The Twelve Apostles

^13 (N)And he went up on the mountain and called to him those ^(O)whom he desired, and they came to him. ^14 (P)And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach ^15 (Q)and have authority to cast out demons. ¹⁶ He appointed the twelve: ^(R)Simon (to whom ^(S)he gave the name Peter); ^17 (T)James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); ¹⁸ Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and ^(U)Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,^{[a] 19} and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.