Book of Common Prayer
A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.
1 ¶ His foundation is in mountains of holiness.
2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4 ¶ I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those that know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this one was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man were born in her; and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count when he writes up the peoples that this one was born there. Selah.
7 And singers and players on instruments in her shall say: all my springs are in thee.
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 ¶ Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.
6 In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.
7 ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days decline because of thy wrath; we end our years according to the word.
10 The days of our years are seventy, and of the most valiant eighty years, yet their strength is labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.
12 ¶ Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return unto us, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy slaves.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy, and we shall sing and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days in which thou hast afflicted us and the years in which we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear in thy slaves and thy glory upon their sons.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and set thou aright the work of our hands upon us; yea, set thou aright the work of our hands.
1 ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods, for his mercy endures for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever.
4 To the only one who does great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.
5 To him that by intelligence made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever.
7 To him that made the great lights: for his mercy endures for ever:
8 The sun to rule in the day: for his mercy endures for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule in the night: for his mercy endures for ever.
10 ¶ To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures for ever:
12 With a strong hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endures for ever.
13 To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures for ever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever.
16 To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.
17 To him who smote great kings: for his mercy endures for ever.
18 And slew powerful kings: for his mercy endures for ever,
19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures for ever:
21 And gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endures for ever:
22 Even an inheritance unto Israel his slave: for his mercy endures for ever.
23 ¶ Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures for ever:
24 And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures for ever.
25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against that people, for they are stronger than we.
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the sons of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone through to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
33 And there we saw giants, the sons of Anak, of the race of the giants; and we were in our own sight as locusts, and so we were in their sight.
14 ¶ Then all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried, and the people wept that night.
2 And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole congregation said unto them, Oh, that we might die in the land of Egypt or that we might die in this wilderness!
3 And why has the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 ¶ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.
6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, who were of those that had spied out the land, rent their clothes;
7 and they spoke unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceeding good land.
8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
9 Therefore, do not be rebels against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.
10 Then all the multitude spoke of stoning them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the testimony before all the sons of Israel.
11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? How long will it be before they believe me, with all the signs which I have done among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou didst bring this people out of the midst of them with thy might;
14 and the inhabitants of this land will say, for they have already heard that thou, oh LORD, wast among this people, that thou, O LORD, art seen face to face, and that thy cloud was over them, and that thou didst go before them by day time in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night;
15 and that thou hast caused all this people to die as one man; and the Gentiles who have heard of thy fame will speak, saying,
16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore unto them; therefore, he has slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.
19 Pardon now the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.
20 ¶ Then the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
22 Because all those men who saw my glory and my signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,
23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of those that provoked me see it.
24 But my slave Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he proved to follow after me, I will bring him into the land that he entered into, and his seed shall receive it by inheritance,
25 and even the Amalekite and the Canaanite who dwell in the valley. Turn around tomorrow and go into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin;
10 as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;
11 there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,
14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15 their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 destruction and misery are in their ways,
17 and the way of peace they have not known;
18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 ¶ Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.
20 For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
19 ¶ And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the Jordan;
2 and a great multitude followed him, and he healed them there.
3 ¶ Then the Pharisees came unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for any cause?
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female?
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.
6 Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a bill of divorce and to put her away?
8 He said unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication and shall marry another, commits adultery, and whosoever marries her that is put away commits adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.
11 But he said unto them, Everyone cannot receive this word, except those unto whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs who were so born from their mother’s womb; and there are some eunuchs who were made eunuchs of men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs because of the kingdom of the heavens. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
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