Book of Common Prayer
101 I will sing mercy and judgment. To You, O LORD, I will sing!
2 I will do wisely in the perfect way, till You come to me. I will walk in the uprightness of my heart in the midst of my house.
3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away. It shall not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will know no evil.
5 He who secretly slanders his neighbor, I will destroy. He who has a proud look and high heart, I cannot allow.
6 My eyes shall be to the faithful of the land, so that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 No deceitful person shall dwell within my house. He who tells lies shall not remain in my sight.
8 Early will I destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all the workers of iniquity from the City of the LORD. A prayer of the afflicted, when he shall be in distress and pour forth his meditation before the LORD
109 Do not hold Your tongue, O God of my praise.
2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of deceit, are opened upon me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
3 They also surrounded me, with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
4 In return for my friendship they were my adversaries; but I gave myself to prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
6 Set the wicked over him; and let the adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
8 Let his days be few and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg and seek bread, coming out of their places destroyed.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has, and let the strangers plunder his labor.
12 Let there be no one to extend mercy to him, nor let there be any to show mercy upon his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be destroyed. In the generation following, let their name be put out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be held in remembrance by the LORD. And do not let the sin of his mother be wiped out.
15 Let them always be before the LORD, so that He may cut off their memorial from the Earth.
16 Because he did not remember to show mercy (but persecuted the afflicted and poor man, and the sorrowful-hearted, to kill him),
17 as he loved cursing, so shall it come to him. And as he did not love blessing, so shall it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like a garment, so shall it come into his core like water and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be to him as a garment to cover him, and for a girdle with which he shall always be girded.
20 Let this be the reward from the LORD to my adversary, and to those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But You, O LORD my God, deal with me according to Your Name. Deliver me (for Your mercy is good).
22 Because I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I depart like the shadow that declines and am shaken off as the grasshopper.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh has lost fatness.
25 I also became a rebuke to them. Those who looked upon me shook their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to Your mercy.
27 And they shall know that this is Your hand and that You, LORD, have done it.
28 They curse. Yet You will bless. They shall arise and be confounded; but Your servant shall rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with their confusion, as with a cloak.
30 I will give great thanks to the LORD with my mouth and praise Him among the multitude.
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121 I have executed judgment and justice, leave me not to my oppressors.
122 Answer for Your servant in that which is good, and do not let the proud oppress me.
123 My eyes have failed, longing for Your salvation and for Your just Promise.
124 Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy and teach me Your Statutes.
125 I am Your servant. Grant me, therefore, understanding, that I may know Your Testimonies.
126 It is time for You, LORD, to work. For they have destroyed Your Law.
127 Therefore I love Your Commandments above gold—yea, above most fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all Your Precepts most just and hate all false ways.
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129 Your Testimonies are wonderful. Therefore, my soul keeps them.
130 The entrance into Your Words shows light and gives understanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth and panted, because I loved Your Commandments.
132 Look upon me and be merciful to me, as you used to do to those who love Your Name.
133 Direct my steps in Your Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of men, and I will keep Your Precepts.
135 Show the light of Your Countenance upon Your servant; and teach me Your Statutes.
136 My eyes gush out with rivers of water because they do not keep Your Law.
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137 Righteous are You, O LORD, and just are Your Judgments.
138 You have commanded justice by Your Testimonies and Truth, especially.
139 My zeal has even consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten Your Words.
140 Your Word is proved most pure. And Your servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised, yet I do not forget Your Precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. And Your Law is Truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have come upon me. Yet are the Commandments my delight.
144 The righteousness of Your Testimonies is everlasting. Grant me understanding, and I shall live.
21 And the king said to Joab, “Behold, now, I have done this thing. Go, then, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself and thanked the king. Then Joab said, “This day your servant knows that I have found grace in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant.”
23 And Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
24 And the king said, “Let him turn to his own house, and not see my face.” So, Absalom turned to his own house, and did not see the king’s face.
25 Now in all Israel, there was no one to be praised as much for beauty as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head there was no blemish on him.
26 And when he shaved his head (for he shaved it at the end of every year because it was too heavy for him, therefore he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.
27 And Absalom had three sons and one daughter, named Tamar, who was a fair woman to look upon.
28 So, Absalom dwelt in Jerusalem for the span of two years and did not see the king’s face.
29 Therefore, Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king. But he would not come to him. And when he sent for him again, he would not come.
30 Therefore, he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab has a field by my place, and has barley in it. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
31 Then Joab arose and came to Absalom, to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants burnt my field with fire?”
32 And Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent for you, saying, ‘Come here, and I will send you to the king to say “Why have I come from Geshur? It would have been better for me to have still been there.”’ Now, therefore, let me see the king’s face. And if there is any trespass in me, let him kill me.”
33 Then Joab came to the king and told him. And he called for Absalom, who came to the king and bowed himself to the ground on his face before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.
15 And after those days, we made ourselves ready and went up to Jerusalem.
16 Some of the disciples of Caesarea also went with us, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple with whom we were to lodge.
17 And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
18 And the next day Paul went in with us to James. And all the elders were assembled there.
19 And after he had embraced them, he told in order all things that God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
20 So when they heard it, they glorified God, and said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousand Jews there are who believe. And they are all zealous for the Law.
21 “Now they are informed that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their sons, nor to live after the customs.
22 What then? The multitude must certainly come together. For they shall hear that you have come.
23 Therefore, do what we tell you. We have four men who have made a vow.
24 Take them. And purify yourself with them. And contribute with them, so that they may shave their heads. And all shall know that those things about which they have been informed concerning you, are nothing. And that you yourself also walk and keep the Law.
25 As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and determined that they should observe no such thing, except that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from that which is strangled, and from fornication.
26 Then the next day Paul took the men, and having been purified with them, entered into the Temple and declared the completion of the days of the purification and that an offering would be offered for each one of them.
17 And when He had gone on His way, someone came running and kneeled to Him and asked Him, “Good Master, what must I do so that I may possess eternal life?”
18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? There is no one good but One, even God.
19 “You know the Commandments: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness. You shall hurt no man. Honor your father and mother.
20 Then he answered, and said to Him, “Master, all these things I have observed from my youth.”
21 And Jesus looked upon him and loved him and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go and sell all that you have. And give to the poor. And you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me. And take up the Cross.
22 But he was sad at that saying and went away sorrowful. For he had great possessions.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!”
24 And His disciples were afraid at His Words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
26 And they were much more astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?”
27 But Jesus looked upon them, and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For with God, all things are possible.”
28 Then Peter began to say to Him, “Lo, we have forsaken all, and have followed You.”
29 Jesus answered, and said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for My sake and the Gospels,
30 who shall not receive a hundredfold - now presently - houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands (with persecutions) and in the world to come, eternal life.
31 “But many who are first, shall be last; and the last, first.”
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