Old/New Testament
Psalm 105[a]
105 Give thanks to the Lord.
Call on his name.
Make known his accomplishments among the nations.
2 Sing to him.
Make music to him.
Tell about all his miraculous deeds.
3 Boast about his holy name.
Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
4 Seek the Lord and the strength he gives.
Seek his presence continually.
5 Recall the miraculous deeds he performed,
his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,[b]
6 O children[c] of Abraham,[d] God’s[e] servant,
you descendants[f] of Jacob, God’s[g] chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God;
he carries out judgment throughout the earth.[h]
8 He always remembers his covenantal decree,
the promise he made[i] to a thousand generations—
9 the promise[j] he made to Abraham,
the promise he made by oath to Isaac.
10 He gave it to Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as a lasting promise,[k]
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion of your inheritance.”
12 When they were few in number,
just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,
13 they wandered from nation to nation,
and from one kingdom to another.[l]
14 He let no one oppress them;
he disciplined kings for their sake,
15 saying,[m] “Don’t touch my chosen ones.[n]
Don’t harm my prophets.”
16 He called down a famine upon the earth;
he cut off all the food supply.[o]
17 He sent a man ahead of them[p]—
Joseph was sold as a servant.
18 The shackles hurt his feet;[q]
his neck was placed in an iron collar,[r]
19 until the time when his prediction[s] came true.
The Lord’s word[t] proved him right.[u]
20 The king authorized his release;[v]
the ruler of nations set him free.
21 He put him in charge of his palace,[w]
and made him manager of all his property,
22 giving him authority to imprison his officials[x]
and to teach his advisers.[y]
23 Israel moved to[z] Egypt;
Jacob lived for a time[aa] in the land of Ham.
24 The Lord[ab] made his people very fruitful,
and made them[ac] more numerous than their[ad] enemies.
25 He caused the Egyptians[ae] to hate his people,
and to mistreat[af] his servants.
26 He sent his servant Moses,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
27 They executed his miraculous signs among them,[ag]
and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
28 He made it dark;[ah]
Moses and Aaron did not disobey his orders.[ai]
29 He turned the Egyptians’ water into blood,
and killed their fish.
30 Their land was overrun by frogs,
which even got into the rooms of their kings.
31 He ordered flies to come;[aj]
gnats invaded their whole territory.
32 He sent hail along with the rain;[ak]
there was lightning in their land.[al]
33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees,
and broke the trees throughout their territory.
34 He ordered locusts to come,[am]
innumerable grasshoppers.
35 They ate all the vegetation in their land,
and devoured the crops of their fields.[an]
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power.[ao]
37 He brought his people[ap] out enriched[aq] with silver and gold;
none of his tribes stumbled.
38 Egypt was happy when they left,
for they were afraid of them.[ar]
39 He spread out a cloud for a cover,[as]
and provided a fire to light up the night.
40 They asked for food,[at] and he sent quail;
he satisfied them with food from the sky.[au]
41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out;
a river ran through dry regions.
42 Yes,[av] he remembered the sacred promise[aw]
he made to Abraham his servant.
43 When he led his people out, they rejoiced;
his chosen ones shouted with joy.[ax]
44 He handed the territory of nations over to them,
and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,[ay]
45 so that they might keep his commands
and obey[az] his laws.
Praise the Lord.
Psalm 106[ba]
106 Praise the Lord.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures.[bb]
2 Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,
or relate all his praiseworthy deeds?[bc]
3 How blessed are those who promote justice,
and do what is right all the time.
4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people.
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
5 so I may see the prosperity[bd] of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation,[be]
and boast along with the people who belong to you.[bf]
6 We have sinned like[bg] our ancestors;[bh]
we have done wrong, we have done evil.
7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds.
They failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,
and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.[bi]
8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation,[bj]
that he might reveal his power.
9 He shouted at[bk] the Red Sea and it dried up;
he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.
10 He delivered them from the power[bl] of the one who hated them,
and rescued[bm] them from the power[bn] of the enemy.
11 The water covered their enemies;
not even one of them survived.[bo]
12 They believed his promises;[bp]
they sang praises to him.
13 They quickly forgot what he had done;[bq]
they did not wait for his instructions.[br]
14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving[bs] for meat;[bt]
they challenged God[bu] in the wastelands.
15 He granted their request,
then struck them with a disease.[bv]
16 In the camp they resented[bw] Moses,
and Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.[bx]
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it engulfed[by] the group led by Abiram.[bz]
18 Fire burned their group;
the flames scorched the wicked.[ca]
19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
20 They traded their majestic God[cb]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They rejected[cc] the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
22 amazing feats in the land of Ham,
mighty acts[cd] by the Red Sea.
23 He threatened[ce] to destroy them,
but[cf] Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him[cg]
and turned back his destructive anger.[ch]
24 They rejected the fruitful land;[ci]
they did not believe his promise.[cj]
25 They grumbled in their tents;[ck]
they did not obey[cl] the Lord.
26 So he made a solemn vow[cm]
that he would make them die[cn] in the wilderness,
27 make their descendants[co] die[cp] among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands.[cq]
28 They worshiped[cr] Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.[cs]
29 They made the Lord angry[ct] by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened,[cu]
and the plague subsided.
31 This was credited to Phinehas as a righteous act
for all generations to come.[cv]
32 They made him angry by the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered[cw] because of them,
33 for they aroused[cx] his temper,[cy]
and he spoke rashly.[cz]
34 They did not destroy the nations,[da]
as the Lord had commanded them to do.
35 They mixed in with the nations
and learned their ways.[db]
36 They worshiped[dc] their idols,
which became a snare to them.[dd]
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.[de]
38 They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted by bloodshed.[df]
39 They were defiled by their deeds,
and unfaithful in their actions.[dg]
40 So the Lord was angry with his people[dh]
and despised the people who belonged to him.[di]
41 He handed them over to[dj] the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them;
they were subject to their authority.[dk]
43 Many times he delivered[dl] them,
but they had a rebellious attitude,[dm]
and degraded themselves[dn] by their sin.
44 Yet he took notice of their distress,
when he heard their cry for help.
45 He remembered his covenant with them,
and relented[do] because of his great loyal love.
46 He caused all their conquerors[dp]
to have pity on them.
47 Deliver us, O Lord, our God.
Gather us from among the nations.
Then we will give thanks[dq] to your holy name,
and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.[dr]
48 The Lord God of Israel deserves praise,[ds]
in the future and forevermore.[dt]
Let all the people say, “We agree![du] Praise the Lord!”[dv]
Immaturity and Self-deception
3 So, brothers and sisters,[a] I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh,[b] as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you milk,[c] not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 for you are still influenced by the flesh.[d] For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?[e] 4 For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?[f]
5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.[g] 6 I planted,[h] Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow. 7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything,[i] nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work as one,[j] but each will receive his reward according to his work. 9 We are coworkers belonging to God.[k] You are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,[l] 13 each builder’s[m] work will be plainly seen, for the Day[n] will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire[o] will test what kind of work each has done. 14 If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss.[p] He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple[q] and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
18 Guard against self-deception, each of you.[r] If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”[s] 20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”[t] 21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals![u] For everything belongs to you, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas[v] or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
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