The Lord’s Glory and Man’s Dignity.

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

Covenant of the Rainbow

9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “^(A)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. ² The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the ^[a]sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. ³ Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, ^(B)as I gave the green plant. ⁴ Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, ^(C)its blood. ⁵ Surely I will require ^[b](D)your lifeblood; ^[c](E)from every beast I will require it. And ^[d]from every man, ^[e]from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ “Now behold, ^(I)I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your ^[g]descendants after you; ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. ¹¹ I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall ^(J)never again be cut off by the water of the flood, ^(K)neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹² God said, “This is ^(L)the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for ^[h]all successive generations; ¹³ I set My ^(M)bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ and ^(N)I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and ^(O)never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the ^(P)everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

¹⁸ Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and ^(Q)Ham was the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and ^(R)from these the whole earth was ^[i]populated.

²⁰ Then Noah began ^[j]farming and planted a vineyard. ²¹ He drank of the wine and ^(S)became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. ²² Ham, the father of Canaan, ^(T)saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ²³ But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were ^[k]turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. ²⁴ When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵ So he said,

²⁶ He also said,

²⁸ Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹ So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Descendants of Noah

10 Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

^2 (Y)The sons of Japheth were ^(Z)Gomer and Magog and ^(AA)Madai and ^(AB)Javan and Tubal and ^(AC)Meshech and Tiras. ³ The sons of Gomer were ^(AD)Ashkenaz and ^[o]Riphath and ^(AE)Togarmah. ⁴ The sons of Javan were Elishah and ^(AF)Tarshish, Kittim and ^[p]Dodanim. ⁵ From these the coastlands of the nations ^[q]were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

^6 (AG)The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. ⁷ The sons of Cush were ^(AH)Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and ^(AI)Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were ^(AJ)Sheba and ^(AK)Dedan. ⁸ Now Cush ^[r]became the father of Nimrod; he ^[s]became a mighty one on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰ The beginning of his kingdom was ^[t](AL)Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of ^(AM)Shinar. ¹¹ From that land he went forth ^(AN)into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, ¹² and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. ¹³ Mizraim ^[u]became the father of ^(AO)Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim ¹⁴ and ^(AP)Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ Canaan ^[v]became the father of ^(AQ)Sidon, his firstborn, and ^(AR)Heth ¹⁶ and ^(AS)the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite ¹⁷ and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite ¹⁸ and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. ^19 (AT)The territory of the Canaanite ^[w]extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward ^(AU)Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

²¹ Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the ^[x]older brother of Japheth, children were born. ^22 (AV)The sons of Shem were ^(AW)Elam and Asshur and ^(AX)Arpachshad and ^(AY)Lud and Aram. ²³ The sons of Aram were ^(AZ)Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ²⁴ Arpachshad ^[y]became the father of ^(BA)Shelah; and Shelah ^[z]became the father of Eber. ^25 (BB)Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was ^[aa]Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶ Joktan ^[ab]became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah ²⁷ and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah ²⁸ and ^[ac]Obal and Abimael and Sheba ²⁹ and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ Now their ^[ad]settlement ^[ae]extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.

³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and ^(BC)out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

Be Imitators of God

5 ^(A)Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; ² and ^(B)walk in love, just as Christ also ^(C)loved ^[a]you and ^(D)gave Himself up for us, an ^(E)offering and a sacrifice to God ^[b]as a ^(F)fragrant aroma.

³ But ^(G)immorality ^[c]or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among ^[d]saints; ⁴ and there must be no ^(H)filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which ^(I)are not fitting, but rather ^(J)giving of thanks. ⁵ For this you know with certainty, that ^(K)no ^[e]immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom ^(L)of Christ and God.

^6 (M)Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things ^(N)the wrath of God comes upon ^(O)the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore do not be ^(P)partakers with them; ⁸ for ^(Q)you were formerly ^(R)darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as ^(S)children of Light ⁹ (for ^(T)the fruit of the Light consists in all ^(U)goodness and righteousness and truth), ^10 [f](V)trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. ^11 (W)Do not participate in the unfruitful ^(X)deeds of ^(Y)darkness, but instead even ^[g](Z)expose them; ¹² for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. ¹³ But all things become visible ^(AA)when they are ^[h]exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. ¹⁴ For this reason ^[i]it says,

¹⁵ Therefore ^[j]be careful how you ^(AE)walk, not ^(AF)as unwise men but as wise, ^16 [k](AG)making the most of your time, because ^(AH)the days are evil. ¹⁷ So then do not be foolish, but ^(AI)understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And ^(AJ)do not get drunk with wine, ^[l]for that is ^(AK)dissipation, but be ^(AL)filled with the Spirit, ^19 (AM)speaking to ^[m]one another in ^(AN)psalms and ^(AO)hymns and spiritual ^(AP)songs, ^(AQ)singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; ^20 (AR)always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to ^[n](AS)God, even the Father; ^21 [o](AT)and be subject to one another in the ^[p](AU)fear of Christ.

Marriage Like Christ and the Church

^22 (AV)Wives, ^(AW)be subject to your own husbands, ^(AX)as to the Lord. ²³ For ^(AY)the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the ^(AZ)head of the church, He Himself ^(BA)being the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

^25 (BB)Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and ^(BC)gave Himself up for her, ^26 (BD)so that He might sanctify her, having ^(BE)cleansed her by the ^(BF)washing of water with ^(BG)the word, ²⁷ that He might ^(BH)present to Himself the church ^[q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be ^(BI)holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands ought also to ^(BJ)love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are ^(BK)members of His ^(BL)body. ^31 (BM)For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to ^(BN)love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she ^[r](BO)respects her husband.