Book of Common Prayer
97 O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
98 Thou, through Thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for Thy commands are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Thy precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Thy word.
102 I have not departed from Thy judgments, for Thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are Thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106 I have sworn an oath, and I will perform it, that I will keep Thy righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much; quicken me, O Lord, according unto Thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech Thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me Thy judgments.
109 My soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget Thy law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I erred not from Thy precepts.
111 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined mine heart to perform Thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
113 I hate vain thoughts, but Thy law do I love.
114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Thy word.
115 Depart from me, ye evildoers, for I will keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according to Thy word, that I may live, and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe, and I will have regard unto Thy statutes continually.
118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from Thy statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.
119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love Thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembleth for fear of Thee, and I am afraid of Thy judgments.
81 Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This He ordained in Joseph as a testimony, when He went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I understood not:
6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me!
9 There shall be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 “But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust, and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My and against their adversaries.”
15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and, “With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.”
82 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly and accept persons of the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, “Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.”
7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for Thou shalt inherit all nations.
12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
13 And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand.
14 And he struck it into the pan or kettle, or caldron or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites who came thither.
15 Also before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh from thee, but raw.”
16 And if any man said unto him, “Let them not fail to burn the fat presently and then take as much as thy soul desireth,” then he would answer him, “Nay, but thou shalt give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
17 Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.
18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord.” And they went unto their own home.
21 And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
23 And he said unto them, “Why do ye such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make the Lord’S people to transgress.
25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him. But if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him?” Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the Lord and also with men.
2 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded, because every man heard them speaking in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, “Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?
8 And how then do we each hear them speaking in our own tongue wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretans and Arabians — we hear them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.”
12 And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying one to another, “What meaneth this?”
13 Others mocking said, “These men are full of new wine.”
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, “Ye men of Judea and all ye who dwell in Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words.
15 For these are not drunken as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day;
16 but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath — blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood before that great and notable Day of the Lord come.
21 And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
27 Then came to Him certain of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked Him,
28 saying, “Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
29 There were therefore seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died without children.
30 And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.
31 And the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died.
32 Last of all the woman died also.
33 Therefore, in the resurrection whose wife is she, for seven had her as wife?”
34 And Jesus answering said unto them, “The children of this world marry and are given in marriage.
35 But they that shall be accounted worthy to obtain that World and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage,
36 neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’
38 For He is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto Him.”
39 Then certain of the scribes answering said, “Master, thou hast said well.”
40 And after that they dared not ask Him any question at all.
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