Psalm 25

English Standard Version

Teach Me Your Paths

^[a] Of David.

25 To you, O Lord, I ^(A)lift up my soul.
²O my God, in you I ^(B)trust;
    ^(C)let me not be put to shame;
    ^(D)let not my enemies exult over me.
³Indeed, ^(E)none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
    they shall be ashamed who are ^(F)wantonly ^(G)treacherous.

⁴^(H)Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.
⁵Lead me in your ^(I)truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all the day long.

⁶Remember your ^(J)mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
    ^(K)for they have been from of old.
⁷Remember not ^(L)the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
    according to your ^(M)steadfast love remember me,
    for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

⁸^(N)Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he ^(O)instructs sinners in the way.
⁹He leads the humble in what is right,
    and teaches the humble his way.
¹⁰All the paths of the Lord are ^(P)steadfast love and faithfulness,
    for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹For your ^(Q)name's sake, O Lord,
    pardon my guilt, for it is ^(R)great.
¹²Who is the man who fears the Lord?
    Him ^(S)will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
¹³His soul shall ^(T)abide in well-being,
    and his ^(U)offspring ^(V)shall inherit the land.
¹⁴^(W)The friendship^[b] of the Lord is for those who fear him,
    and he makes known to them his covenant.
¹⁵My ^(X)eyes are ever toward the Lord,
    for he will ^(Y)pluck my feet out of the net.

¹⁶^(Z)Turn to me and be gracious to me,
    for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
    bring me out of my distresses.
¹⁸^(AA)Consider my affliction and my trouble,
    and forgive all my sins.

¹⁹Consider how many are my foes,
    and with what violent hatred they hate me.
²⁰Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!
    ^(AB)Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
²¹May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
    for I wait for you.

²²^(AC)Redeem Israel, O God,
out of all his troubles.

Footnotes

Psalm 25:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Psalm 25:14 Or The secret counsel

Deuteronomy 16:1-17:7

English Standard Version

Passover

16 “Observe the ^(A)month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for ^(B)in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. ²And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or ^(C)the herd, ^(D)at the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there. ³You shall eat no leavened bread with it. ^(E)Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt ^(F)in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. ⁴^(G)No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, ^(H)nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. ⁵You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, ⁶but at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. ⁷And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. ⁸For ^(I)six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be ^(J)a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

The Feast of Weeks

⁹^(K)“You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. ¹⁰Then you shall keep ^(L)the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with ^(M)the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give ^(N)as the Lord your God blesses you. ¹¹And ^(O)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. ¹²^(P)You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

The Feast of Booths

¹³^(Q)“You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. ¹⁴^(R)You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. ¹⁵For ^(S)seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

¹⁶^(T)“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. ^(U)They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. ¹⁷Every man ^(V)shall give as he is able, ^(W)according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

Justice

¹⁸“You shall appoint ^(X)judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. ¹⁹^(Y)You shall not pervert justice. ^(Z)You shall not show partiality, ^(AA)and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. ²⁰Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Forbidden Forms of Worship

²¹“You shall not plant any tree as ^(AB)an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make. ²²And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

17 ^(AC)“You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.

²^(AD)“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, ^(AE)in transgressing his covenant, ³and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or ^(AF)the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, ^(AG)which I have forbidden, ⁴and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire ^(AH)diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, ⁵then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you ^(AI)shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. ⁶^(AJ)On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. ⁷^(AK)The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So ^(AL)you shall purge^[a] the evil^[b] from your midst.

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 17:7 Septuagint drive out; also verse 12
Deuteronomy 17:7 Or evil person; also verse 12

Acts 7:44-60

English Standard Version

⁴⁴“Our fathers had ^(A)the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses ^(B)directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. ⁴⁵Our fathers in turn ^(C)brought it in with Joshua when they ^(D)dispossessed the nations ^(E)that God drove out before our fathers. So it was ^(F)until the days of David, ⁴⁶^(G)who found favor in the sight of God and ^(H)asked to find a dwelling place for ^(I)the God of Jacob.^[a] ⁴⁷But it was ^(J)Solomon who built a house for him. ⁴⁸^(K)Yet the Most High does not dwell ^(L)in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

⁴⁹^(M)“‘Heaven is my throne,
^(N)and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,
or what is the place of my rest?
⁵⁰Did not my hand make all these things?’

⁵¹^(O)“You stiff-necked people, ^(P)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^(Q)As your fathers did, so do you. ⁵²^(R)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of ^(S)the Righteous One, ^(T)whom you have now betrayed and murdered, ⁵³you who received the law ^(U)as delivered by angels and ^(V)did not keep it.”

The Stoning of Stephen

⁵⁴Now when they heard these things ^(W)they were enraged, and they ^(X)ground their teeth at him. ⁵⁵But he, ^(Y)full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw ^(Z)the glory of God, and Jesus standing ^(AA)at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶And he said, “Behold, I see ^(AB)the heavens opened, and ^(AC)the Son of Man standing ^(AD)at the right hand of God.” ⁵⁷But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together^[b] at him. ⁵⁸Then ^(AE)they cast him out of the city and ^(AF)stoned him. And ^(AG)the witnesses laid down their garments ^(AH)at the feet of a young man named Saul. ⁵⁹And as they were stoning Stephen, ^(AI)he called out, “Lord Jesus, ^(AJ)receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰And ^(AK)falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, ^(AL)“Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, ^(AM)he fell asleep.