October 6, 2026

¹³For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

¹⁴I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

¹⁵But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace,

¹⁶to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

¹⁹But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord's brother.

²⁰Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.

²¹Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

²²I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

²³but they only heard, "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

²⁴So they glorified God in me.

¹LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.

²You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

³You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

¹³For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

¹⁵My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

³⁸As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

³⁹She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word.

⁴⁰But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."

⁴¹Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

⁴²but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."