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 <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl">Psalm 17</div><div class="d">A prayer of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1Hear me, Lord, my plea is just;</div><div class="q2">listen to my cry.</div><div class="q1">Hear my prayer&#8212;</div><div class="q2">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</div><div class="q1"> 2Let my vindication come from you;</div><div class="q2">may your eyes see what is right.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3Though you probe my heart,</div><div class="q2">though you examine me at night and test me,</div><div class="q1">you will find that I have planned no evil;</div><div class="q2">my mouth has not transgressed.</div><div class="q1"> 4Though people tried to bribe me,</div><div class="q2">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</div><div class="q2">through what your lips have commanded.</div><div class="q1"> 5My steps have held to your paths;</div><div class="q2">my feet have not stumbled.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</div><div class="q2">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</div><div class="q1"> 7Show me the wonders of your great love,</div><div class="q2">you who save by your right hand</div><div class="q2">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</div><div class="q1"> 8Keep me as the apple of your eye;</div><div class="q2">hide me in the shadow of your wings</div><div class="q1"> 9from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</div><div class="q2">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10They close up their callous hearts,</div><div class="q2">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</div><div class="q1"> 11They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</div><div class="q2">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</div><div class="q1"> 12They are like a lion hungry for prey,</div><div class="q2">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13Rise up, Lord, confront them, bring them down;</div><div class="q2">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</div><div class="q1"> 14By your hand save me from such people, Lord,</div><div class="q2">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</div><div class="q1">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</div><div class="q2">may their children gorge themselves on it,</div><div class="q2">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</div><div class="q2">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</div>
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 <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1">Giving to the Needy</div><div class="p"> 1 &#8220;Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.</div><div class="p"> 2 &#8220;So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</div><div class="s1">Prayer</div><div class="p"> 5 &#8220;And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.</div><div class="p"> 9 &#8220;This, then, is how you should pray:</div><div class="q1"> &#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Our Father in heaven,</div><div class="q1"> hallowed be your name,</div><div class="q1"> 10 your kingdom come,</div><div class="q1"> your will be done,</div><div class="q2"> on earth as it is in heaven.</div><div class="q1"> 11 Give us today our daily bread.</div><div class="q1"> 12 And forgive us our debts,</div><div class="q2"> as we also have forgiven our debtors.</div><div class="q1"> 13 And lead us not into temptation, # 6:13 The Greek for temptation can also mean testing. </div><div class="q2"> but deliver us from the evil one. # 6:13 Or from evil ; some late manuscripts one, / for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. &#8217;</div><div class="m"> 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.</div><div class="s1">Fasting</div><div class="p"> 16 &#8220;When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</div><div class="s1">Treasures in Heaven</div><div class="p"> 19 &#8220;Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</div><div class="p"> 22 &#8220;The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, # 6:22 The Greek for healthy here implies generous. your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eyes are unhealthy,#6:23 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy. your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!</div><div class="p"> 24 &#8220;No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.</div><div class="s1">Do Not Worry</div><div class="p"> 25 &#8220;Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life#6:27 Or single cubit to your height?</div><div class="p"> 28 &#8220;And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you&#8212;you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, &#8216;What shall we eat?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we drink?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we wear?&#8217; 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.</div>
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