2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 26 I

3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 I

4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 4 I

5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 2 I

6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. 10 I

7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 2 I

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 2 I

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 4 I

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 6 I

11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 2 I

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. 4 I

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. 6 I

14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. 2 I

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. 2 I

16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 4 I

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. 4 I

19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 4 I

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 10 I

21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 10 I

22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 10 I

23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 6 I

24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 6 I

25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 6 I

26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 4 I

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. 10 I

28 For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. 13 I

29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. 2 I

30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 15 I

31 For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? 14 I

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 2 I

33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places. 2 I

34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 2 I

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. 16 I

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. 2 I

37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. 2 I

38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. 2 I

39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

46 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 24 I

47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. 2 I

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. 2 I

16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 10 I

17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 10 I

18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 13 I

19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 13 I

20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 10 I

21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 10 I

22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. 10 I

23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 10 I

24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 10 I

25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 10 I

26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 12 I

27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: 10 I

28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 10 I

29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake. 10 I

30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 10 I

31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake. 10 I

32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. 10 I

33 And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. 10 I

1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

3 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

9 And the Lord spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,

10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee

12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the Lord; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. 7 I

14 So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.

45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. 2 I

53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 5 I

1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 2 I

3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. 4 I

4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 6 I

5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. 4 I

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? 8 I

7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. 4 I

8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 8 I

9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. 8 I

10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. 6 I

11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: 4 I

12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. 6 I

Psalm 18

Genesis 18

1 Chronicles 21

Luke 11

Luke 12