Psalm 8 How Majestic Is Your Name To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[o] A Psalm of David. 1O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your… Continue Reading
Psalm 6 O LORD, Deliver My Life To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith.[i] A Psalm of David. 1O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. 2Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled. 3My… Continue Reading
Psalm 4 Answer Me When I Call To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. 1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! 2O men,[f] how long shall my honor be turned into… Continue Reading
Psalm 3 Save Me, O My God A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. 1O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; 2many are saying of my soul, there is no salvation for him in God. Selah [e] 3But you, O LORD, are a shield about me,… Continue Reading
Psalm 2 The Reign of the LORD’s Anointed 1 Why do the nations rage[c] and the peoples plot in vain? 2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, 3“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” 4He… Continue Reading
Psalm 1 BOOK ONE The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked 1Blessed is the man[a] who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2but his delight is in the law[b] of the LORD, and on his law he meditates… Continue Reading
Acts 28 Paul on Malta 1After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. 2 The native people[j] showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold. 3When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and… Continue Reading
Acts 27 Paul Sails for Rome 1And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. 2And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put… Continue Reading
Acts 26 Paul’s Defense Before Agrippa 1So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: 2“I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews, 3especially… Continue Reading
Acts 25 Paul Appeals to Caesar 1Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 2And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him, 3asking as a favor against Paul[v] that he summon him to… Continue Reading