Because your steadfast love is better than life,
    my lips will praise you.(A)
So I will bless you as long as I live;
    I will lift up my hands and call on your name.(B)

My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast,[a]
    and my mouth praises you with joyful lips(C)

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  1. 63.5 Heb with fat and fatness

The Institution of the Lord’s Supper

26 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it[a] he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”(A)

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  1. 26.26 Other ancient authorities read after giving thanks

An Invitation to Abundant Life

55 Hear, everyone who thirsts;
    come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
    come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without price.(A)
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread
    and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
    and delight yourselves in rich food.(B)

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On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
    a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines,
    of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.(A)

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How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
    All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.(A)

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20 So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.(A)

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12     kiss his feet,[a]
or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way,
    for his wrath is quickly kindled.

Happy are all who take refuge in him.(A)

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  1. 2.12 Cn: Meaning of Heb of 2.11b and 12a is uncertain

When we had finished[a] the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for one day.(A)

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  1. 21.7 Or continued

14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.

Peace to all of you who are in Christ.[a](A)

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  1. 5.14 Other ancient authorities add Jesus or Amen or Jesus. Amen

15 And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them, and after that his brothers talked with him.

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11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

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26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” 27 So he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said,

“Ah, the smell of my son
    is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.(A)

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