Friday, September 4, 2026

¹So let a man think of us as Christ's servants and stewards of God's mysteries.

²Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

³But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don't even judge my own self.

⁴For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

⁵Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

³Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

⁴Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

⁶he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

²⁷Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

²⁸For the LORD loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰The LORD helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

³³They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

³⁴He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

³⁵But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."

³⁶He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

³⁷No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.

³⁸But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

³⁹No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"