Old/New Testament
Psalm 110
The Priestly King
A Davidic psalm.
1 This is the declaration of the Lord
to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”(A)
2 The Lord will extend Your mighty scepter from Zion.
Rule[a] over Your surrounding[b] enemies.(B)
3 Your people will volunteer
on Your day of battle.[c](C)
In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,
the dew of Your youth belongs to You.[d](D)
4 The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back:
“Forever, You are a priest
like Melchizedek.”(E)
5 The Lord is at Your right hand;
He will crush kings on the day of His anger.(F)
6 He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses;(G)
He will crush leaders over the entire world.(H)
7 He will drink from the brook by the road;(I)
therefore, He will lift up His head.(J)
Psalm 111
Praise for the Lord’s Works
1 Hallelujah![e]
I will praise the Lord with all my heart
in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.(K)
2 The Lord’s works are great,
studied by all who delight in them.(L)
3 All that He does is splendid and majestic;(M)
His righteousness endures forever.(N)
4 He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered.(O)
The Lord is gracious and compassionate.(P)
5 He has provided food for those who fear Him;(Q)
He remembers His covenant forever.(R)
6 He has shown His people the power of His works
by giving them the inheritance of the nations.(S)
7 The works of His hands are truth and justice;
all His instructions are trustworthy.(T)
8 They are established forever and ever,
enacted in truth and in what is right.(U)
9 He has sent redemption to His people.(V)
He has ordained His covenant forever.
His name is holy and awe-inspiring.(W)
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;(X)
all who follow His instructions[f] have good insight.(Y)
His praise endures forever.(Z)
Psalm 112
The Traits of the Righteous
2 His descendants will be powerful in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.(AB)
3 Wealth and riches are in his house,(AC)
and his righteousness endures forever.(AD)
4 Light shines in the darkness for the upright.(AE)
He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.(AF)
5 Good will come to a man who lends generously
and conducts his business fairly.(AG)
6 He will never be shaken.(AH)
The righteous man will be remembered forever.(AI)
7 He will not fear bad news;
his heart is confident, trusting in the Lord.(AJ)
8 His heart is assured; he will not fear.(AK)
In the end he will look in triumph on his foes.(AL)
9 He distributes freely to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.(AM)
His horn will be exalted in honor.(AN)
Immoral Church Members
5 It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality(A) among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated[a] among the Gentiles(B)—a man is living with his father’s wife.(C) 2 And you are inflated with pride, instead of filled with grief(D) so that he who has committed this act might be removed from your congregation. 3 For though I am absent in body but present in spirit,(E) I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present. 4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit and with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 turn that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,(F) so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.(G)
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast(H) permeates the whole batch of dough?(I) 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch. You are indeed unleavened, for Christ our Passover(J) has been sacrificed.[b] 8 Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old yeast or with the yeast of malice and evil(K) but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Church Discipline
9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate(L) with sexually immoral people.(M) 10 I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy(N) and swindlers(O) or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.(P) 11 But now I am writing[c] you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer[d](Q) who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard(R) or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person. 12 For what business is it of mine to judge(S) outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside? 13 But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.(T)[e]
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