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 <div class="q1">1Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good:</div><div class="q2">For his mercy endureth for ever.</div><div class="q1"> 2Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?</div><div class="q2"> Who can shew forth all his praise?</div><div class="q1"> 3Blessed are they that keep judgment,</div><div class="q2"> And he that doeth righteousness at all times.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people:</div><div class="q2">O visit me with thy salvation;</div><div class="q1"> 5That I may see the good of thy chosen,</div><div class="q2">That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6We have sinned with our fathers,</div><div class="q2">We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.</div><div class="q1"> 7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies;</div><div class="q2">But provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,</div><div class="q2">That he might make his mighty power to be known.</div><div class="q1"> 9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up:</div><div class="q2">So he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.</div><div class="q1"> 10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,</div><div class="q2">And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.</div><div class="q1"> 11And the waters covered their enemies:</div><div class="q2">There was not one of them left.</div><div class="q1"> 12Then believed they his words;</div><div class="q2">They sang his praise.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13They soon forgat his works;</div><div class="q2">They waited not for his counsel:</div><div class="q1"> 14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,</div><div class="q2">And tempted God in the desert.</div><div class="q1"> 15And he gave them their request;</div><div class="q2">But sent leanness into their soul.</div>
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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="q1"> 1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,</div><div class="q2"> If thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,</div><div class="q1"> 2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,</div><div class="q2">Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,</div><div class="q2">When thou art come into the hand of thy friend;</div><div class="q2">Go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.</div><div class="q1"> 4Give not sleep to thine eyes,</div><div class="q2">Nor slumber to thine eyelids.</div><div class="q1"> 5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter,</div><div class="q2">And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Go to the ant, thou sluggard;</div><div class="q2">Consider her ways, and be wise:</div><div class="q1"> 7Which having no guide,</div><div class="q2">Overseer, or ruler,</div><div class="q1"> 8Provideth her meat in the summer,</div><div class="q2"> And gathereth her food in the harvest.</div><div class="q1"> 9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?</div><div class="q2">When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</div><div class="q1"> 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,</div><div class="q2">A little folding of the hands to sleep:</div><div class="q1"> 11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,</div><div class="q2">And thy want as an armed man.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 12A naughty person, a wicked man,</div><div class="q2">Walketh with a froward mouth.</div><div class="q1"> 13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet,</div><div class="q2">He teacheth with his fingers;</div><div class="q1"> 14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually;</div><div class="q2">He soweth discord.</div><div class="q1"> 15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;</div><div class="q2">Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 16These six things doth the LORD hate:</div><div class="q2">Yea, seven are an abomination unto him:</div><div class="q1"> 17A proud look, a lying tongue,</div><div class="q2">And hands that shed innocent blood,</div><div class="q1"> 18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,</div><div class="q2">Feet that be swift in running to mischief,</div><div class="q1"> 19A false witness that speaketh lies,</div><div class="q2">And he that soweth discord among brethren.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 20My son, keep thy father's commandment,</div><div class="q2">And forsake not the law of thy mother:</div><div class="q1"> 21Bind them continually upon thine heart,</div><div class="q2"> And tie them about thy neck.</div><div class="q1"> 22When thou goest, it shall lead thee;</div><div class="q2">When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;</div><div class="q2">And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</div><div class="q1"> 23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;</div><div class="q2">And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:</div><div class="q1"> 24To keep thee from the evil woman,</div><div class="q2">From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.</div><div class="q1"> 25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;</div><div class="q2">Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.</div><div class="q1"> 26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread:</div><div class="q2">And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.</div><div class="q1"> 27Can a man take fire in his bosom,</div><div class="q2">And his clothes not be burned?</div><div class="q1"> 28Can one go upon hot coals,</div><div class="q2">And his feet not be burned?</div><div class="q1"> 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife;</div><div class="q2">Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.</div><div class="q1"> 30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal</div><div class="q2">To satisfy his soul when he is hungry;</div><div class="q1"> 31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;</div><div class="q2">He shall give all the substance of his house.</div><div class="q1"> 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding:</div><div class="q2">He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.</div><div class="q1"> 33A wound and dishonour shall he get;</div><div class="q2">And his reproach shall not be wiped away.</div><div class="q1"> 34For jealousy is the rage of a man:</div><div class="q2">Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.</div><div class="q1"> 35He will not regard any ransom;</div><div class="q2">Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.</div><div class="b"></div>
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 <div class="label">7</div><div class="s2">Growing Opposition</div><div class="p"> 1Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.</div><div class="p"> 5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 6He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written,</div><div class="q1"> This people honoureth me with their lips,</div><div class="q1"> But their heart is far from me.</div><div class="q1"> 7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me,</div><div class="q1"> Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</div><div class="m"> 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 13making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.</div><div class="p"> 14And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15there is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. 16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 17And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 19because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? 20And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</div><div class="s2">Tyre and Sidon</div><div class="p"> 24And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. 25For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 26the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 27But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 28And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. 29And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 30And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.</div><div class="s2">Coasts of Decapolis</div><div class="p"> 31And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. 32And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. 33And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; 34and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. 36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.</div>
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 <div class="m">11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.</div>
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