Sunday, June 21, 2026

¹⁰For I have heard the defaming of many: "Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!" say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. "Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him."

¹¹But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won't prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

¹²But the LORD of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

¹³Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

⁸Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

⁹I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

¹⁰For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

¹⁴But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

¹⁷Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

³³The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

³⁴For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.

³⁵Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

²⁶Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

²⁷What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

²⁸Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

²⁹"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will.

³⁰But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

³¹Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

³²Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

³³But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

¹²Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned.

¹³For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

¹⁵But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.