105 O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the people.

² Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him; talk ye of all His wondrous works.

³ Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

⁴ Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face evermore.

⁵ Remember His marvelous works that He hath done, His wonders and the judgments of His mouth,

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham, His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen.

⁷ He is the Lord our God; His judgments are over all the earth.

⁸ He hath remembered His covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹ which covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac,

¹⁰ and confirmed the same unto Jacob as a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹ saying, “Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,”

¹² when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few and strangers in it.

¹³ When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴ He suffered no man to do them wrong; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵ saying, “Touch not Mine anointed, and do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶ Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them, even Joseph who was sold as a servant,

¹⁸ whose feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in irons.

¹⁹ Until the time when his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tried him.

²⁰ The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,

²² to command his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴ And He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people and to deal subtly with His servants.

²⁶ He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.

²⁷ They showed His signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark, and they rebelled not against His word.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, even in the chambers of their kings.

³¹ He spoke and there came divers sorts of flies and lice in all their borders.

³² He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land.

³³ He smote their vines also and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their borders.

³⁴ He spoke and the locusts came, and caterpillars without number,

³⁵ and they ate up all the herbs in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

³⁷ He brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ The people asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock and the waters gushed out, and ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴² For He remembered His holy promise and Abraham His servant.

⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen with gladness,

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labor of the people,

⁴⁵ that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. Praise ye the Lord!

106 Praise ye the Lord! O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can show forth all His praise?

³ Blessed are they that keep judgment and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, with the favor which Thou bearest unto Thy people; O visit me with Thy salvation,

⁵ that I may see the good of Thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation, that I may glory with Thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers understood not Thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies, but provoked Thee at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake, that He might make His mighty power to be known.

⁹ He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ And the waters covered their enemies; there was not one of them left.

¹² Then believed they His words; they sang His praise.

¹³ They soon forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel,

¹⁴ but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵ And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ They also envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image.

²⁰ Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearsome things by the Red Sea.

²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them.

²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land; they believed not His word,

²⁵ but murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

²⁶ Therefore He lifted up His hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷ to overthrow their seed also among the nations and to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They joined themselves also with Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices to the dead.

²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke in upon them.

³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and so the plague was stayed.

³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

³² They angered Him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes,

³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them;

³⁵ but they mingled among the heathen and learned their works,

³⁶ and they served their idols, which were a snare unto them.

³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and daughters unto devils,

³⁸ and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own schemes.

⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against His people, insomuch that He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴¹ And He gave them into the hand of the heathen, and they that hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Many times did He deliver them, but they provoked Him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He regarded their affliction when He heard their cry,

⁴⁵ and He remembered for them His covenant, and repented according to the multitude of His mercies.

⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied by all those that carried them captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto Thy holy name, and to triumph in Thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise ye the Lord!

3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

² I have fed you with milk and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able,

³ for ye are yet carnal. For if there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?

⁴ For while one saith, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are ye not carnal?

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye came to believe, even as the Lord gave to every man?

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

⁷ So then, neither is he that planteth anything, nor he that watereth, but God who giveth the increase.

⁸ Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one, and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.

⁹ For we are laborers together with God; ye are God’s husbandry; ye are God’s building.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

¹¹ For no man can lay another foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

¹² Now if any man build upon this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,

¹³ every man’s work shall be made manifest; for the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall test every man’s work of what sort it is.

¹⁴ If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereon, he shall receive a reward.

¹⁵ If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as fire.

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, and ye are that temple.

¹⁸ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: “He taketh the wise in their own craftiness”;

²⁰ and again, “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.”

²¹ Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours,

²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come — all are yours,

²³ and ye are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.