Old Testament
Psa 107:1~110:7
Ps 107
1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, / For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, / Whom He redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
3 And gathered out of the lands, / From the east and from the west, / From the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness, on the desert way; / They found no city of habitation.
5 Hungry and thirsty, / Their soul fainted within them.
6 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He delivered them from their distresses.
7 And He led them on a straight way / That they might come to a city of habitation.
8 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
9 For He satisfies the thirsty soul, / And the famished soul He fills with good.
10 Some inhabited darkness and the shadow of death, / And were bound in affliction and irons,
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God / And spurned the counsel of the Most High;
12 Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; / They stumbled, and there was no one to help them.
13 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He saved them from their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, / And He broke apart their bonds.
15 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
16 For He breaks down the doors of bronze / And cuts down the bars of iron.
17 Some were fools, because of their way of transgression; / And because of their iniquities, they were afflicted.
18 Their soul loathed all food, / And they drew near to the gates of death.
19 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He saved them out of their distresses.
20 He sent forth His word and healed them, / And He delivered them from the pits of destruction.
21 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
22 And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving / And declare His doings in joyful song.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, / Conducting business on the mighty waters,
24 These see Jehovah’s doings / And His wondrous deeds in the deep.
25 For He commanded and raised up a storm wind, / And it lifted up the waves of the sea.
26 They mounted up to the heavens; they went down to the depths; / Their soul melted in the calamity.
27 They reeled and staggered like a drunken man, / And all their skill was swallowed up.
28 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He brought them out of their distresses.
29 He made the storm be still, / And the waves of the sea were calm;
30 And they rejoiced that they were quiet, / And He brought them to the haven they desired.
31 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
32 And let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people / And praise Him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilderness, / And springs of water into thirsty ground;
34 Fruitful land into a salt flat, / Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, / And a dry land into springs of water.
36 And He makes the hungry dwell there, / That they may prepare a city of habitation
37 And sow fields and plant vineyards / And get a fruitful yield.
38 He also blesses them, and they are multiplied greatly; / And He does not let their cattle decrease.
39 When they are diminished and bowed down / Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
40 He pours contempt on princes, / And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
41 But He raises the needy man high above affliction / And makes his families like flocks.
42 The upright see it and rejoice; / And all iniquity stops its mouth.
43 Who is wise? Then let him observe these things / And consider the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
Ps 108
1 My heart is fixed, O God; / I will sing, indeed I will sing psalms, / Even with my glory.
2 Awake, O harp and lyre! / I will awaken the dawn.
3 I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Jehovah; / And I will sing psalms to You among the nations.
4 For Your lovingkindness is higher than the heavens, / And Your faithfulness reaches to the sky.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; / And let Your glory be above all the earth.
6 That Your beloved ones may be delivered, / Save with Your right hand, and answer us.
7 God has spoken in His holiness: I will exult; / I will divide Shechem / And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine; / And Ephraim is the helmet for My head; / Judah is My scepter.
9 Moab is My washbowl; / Upon Edom I will cast My sandal; / Over Philistia I will shout.
10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? / Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Will not You, O God, who rejected us / And who did not go forth, O God, with our armies?
12 Give us help from the adversary, / For a salvation by man is vain.
13 In God we will do valiantly, / And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.
Ps 109
1 O God of my praise, do not be silent;
2 For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; / They speak to me with a lying tongue.
3 And with words of hatred they have surrounded me / And have fought against me without cause.
4 In return for my love they have become my adversaries, / But I am all prayer.
5 And they have set against me evil in return for good / And hatred in return for my love.
6 Appoint a wicked man over him, / And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come forth wicked; / And let his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May his days be few; / May another take his office.
9 May his children be orphans, / And his wife a widow.
10 And may his children wander all about and beg, / And may they seek food far from their desolated ruins.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has, / And may strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12 May there be no one to extend him mercy, / Nor anyone to be kind to his orphans.
13 May his posterity be cut off; / In the generation following may his name be blotted out.
14 May his fathers’ iniquity be remembered before Jehovah, / And may his mother’s sin not be blotted out.
15 May they be before Jehovah continually, / So that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, / But persecuted the poor and needy and brokenhearted, / To put them to death.
17 Indeed he loved cursing, so it came on him; / And he took no delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
18 And he clothed himself with cursing like his garment, / So it came into his inward parts like water / And into his bones like oil.
19 Let it be to him like the cloak that he wraps around himself, / And as a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
20 This is the reward from Jehovah for my adversaries / And for those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But You, O Jehovah Lord, deal with me, / For Your name’s sake; / Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy, / And my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like a shadow that declines; / I am shaken off like the locust.
24 My knees wobble through fasting, / And my flesh has become lean, without fatness.
25 I have also become a reproach to them: / When they see me, they shake their heads.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; / Save me according to Your lovingkindness;
27 And they will know that this is Your hand, / That it is You, O Jehovah, who have done it.
28 Let them curse, but You bless; / When they arise, they will be put to shame, / And Your servant will rejoice.
29 May my adversaries be clothed with humiliation, / And may they wrap themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.
30 I will give much thanks to Jehovah with my mouth, / And in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him;
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy / To save him from those who judge his soul.
Ps 110
1 Jehovah declares to my Lord, / Sit at My right hand / Until I make Your enemies / Your footstool.
2 Jehovah will send forth / The scepter of Your strength from Zion: / Rule in the midst of Your enemies.
3 Your people will offer themselves willingly / In the day of Your warfare, / In the splendor of their consecration. / Your young men will be to You / Like the dew from the womb of the dawn.
4 Jehovah has sworn, / And He will not change: / You are a Priest forever / According to the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord is at Your right hand; / He will shatter kings in the day of His anger.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations; / He will fill the place with corpses; / He will shatter the head / Over a great land.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way; / Therefore He will lift up His head.
New Testament
1 Cor 7:1~24
1 7
1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render to his wife that which is due, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deprive each other, except by agreement for a time that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then be together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 But this I say by way of concession, not by way of command.
7 Yet I wish all men to be even as I am myself; but each has his own gift from God, one in this way, the other in that.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I am.
9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
10 But to the married I charge, not I but the Lord, A wife must not be separated from her husband
11 (But if indeed she is separated, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband must not leave his wife.
12 But to the rest I say, I, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, he must not leave her;
13 And a wife who has an unbelieving husband, and if he consents to dwell with her, must not leave her husband.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
15 But if the unbelieving one separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is not enslaved in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
17 However as the Lord has apportioned to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.
18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? He need not efface it. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He need not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of God’s commandments is what counts.
20 Each one, in the calling in which he was called, in this let him remain.
21 Were you called as a slave? Let it not concern you; but even if you are able to become free, use your status as a slave rather.
22 For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord’s freedman; likewise the free man who has been called is Christ’s slave.
23 You were bought with a price; do not be slaves of men.
24 Each one, brothers, in what status he was called, in this let him remain with God.