Book of Common Prayer
26 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my innocence. My trust has also been in the LORD. Therefore, I shall not slide.
2 Test me, O LORD, and try me. Examine my core and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes. Therefore, I have walked in Your truth.
4 I have not dwelt with frivolous people, nor kept company with the deceitful.
5 I have hated the assembly of the evil and have not kept company with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence, O LORD, and surround Your altar.
7 So that I may declare with the voice of thanksgiving and set forth all Your wondrous works.
8 O LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your honor dwells.
9 Do not gather my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloody men,
10 in whose hands are wickedness, and their right hands are full of bribes.
11 But I will walk in my innocence. Redeem me and be merciful to me.
12 My foot stands in uprightness. I will praise You, O LORD, in the Congregations. A Psalm of David.
28 To You, O LORD, do I cry. O my strength, do not be deaf toward me; lest if You do not answer me, I be like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I hold up my hands toward Your Holy Oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak friendly to their neighbors when malice is in their hearts.
4 Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Recompense them for the work of their hands. Render them their reward.
5 For they do not reward the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands. Break them down and do not build them up.
6 Praised be the LORD, for He has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I was helped. Therefore, my heart shall rejoice; and with my song I will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength; and He is the strength of the deliverances of His anointed.
9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Feed them, also, and exalt them forever. A Psalm of David.
36 Wickedness says to the wicked man, even in my heart, that there is no fear of God before His eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, while his iniquity is found worthy to be hated.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to understand and to do good.
4 He imagines mischief upon his bed. He sets himself upon a way that is not good and does not abhor evil.
5 Your mercy, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains. Your judgments are like a great deep. You, LORD, save man and beast.
7 How excellent is Your mercy, O God! Therefore, the children of men trust under the shadow of Your wings.
8 They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your House; and You shall give them drink out of the river of Your pleasures.
9 For with You is the well of life; and in Your Light shall we see light.
10 Extend Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your righteousness to those who are upright in heart.
11 Do not let the foot of pride come against me; and do not let the hand of the wicked men move me.
12 There those who work iniquity have fallen. They are cast down and shall not be able to rise. A Psalm of David.
39 I thought, “I will guard my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth bridled while the wicked are in my sight.
2 I was dumb and spoke nothing. I kept silent, even from good; and my sorrow was more stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me. While I was musing, the fire kindled and I spoke with my tongue:
4 “LORD, let me know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how long I have to live.”
5 Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth and my age as nothing in Your sight. Surely, every man is altogether vanity in his best state. Selah.
6 Doubtless, man walks in a shadow, and disquiets himself pointlessly. He heaps up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them.
7 And now LORD, for what do I wait? My hope is even in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not make me a rebuke to the foolish.
9 I should have been dumb, and not have opened my mouth, because You did it.
10 Take Your plague away from me; for I am consumed by the stroke of Your hand.
11 When, with rebukes, You chastise man for iniquity, You make his beauty melt away as a moth. Surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD; and hear my cry. Do not keep silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You and a sojourner, as all my fathers.
13 Keep Your anger from me, so that I may recover my strength before I go away and am no more. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
16 “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.
17 “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.
18 “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
19 “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
20 “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’
21 “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.
22 ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
23 ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.
25 ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’
2 Therefore we ought to diligently pay attention to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we drift away.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,
3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation (which at first began to be preached by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him;
4 God bearing witness to it both with signs and wonders, and with diverse miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will)?
5 For He has not put the world to come (whereof we speak) in subjection to the angels.
6 But one in a certain place witnessed, saying, “What is man that You should be mindful of him; or the son of man that You would consider him?
7 “You made him a little inferior to the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and have set him above the works of Your Hands.
8 “You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” And in that He has put all things in subjection under him, He left nothing that should not be subject to him. But we still do not see all things subjected to him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made little inferior to the angels, crowned with glory and honor through the suffering of death. That by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone.
10 For it became Him for Whom all these things are - and by Whom all these things are (seeing that He brought many children to Glory) - that He should consecrate the Author of their salvation through afflictions.
19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20 And he confessed and did not deny, but said plainly, “I am not the Christ.”
21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
23 He said, “I am the voice of him who cries in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’, as said the Prophet Isaiah.”
24 Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said to him, “Why do you baptize, then, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water. But there is One among you Whom you do not know.
27 It is He who comes after me, Who was before me, Whose sandal straps I am not worthy to unloose.”
28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John baptized.
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