¹Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. ²And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in … Continue Reading ››

¹And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. ²And Samuel … Continue Reading ››

⁸¹My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.  ⁸²Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?  ⁸³For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.  ⁸⁴How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment … Continue Reading ››

 ⁶⁵Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.  ⁶⁶Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.  ⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.  ⁶⁸Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.  ⁶⁹The proud have forged a … Continue Reading ››

⁴⁹Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.  ⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.  ⁵¹The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.  ⁵²I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted … Continue Reading ››

 ²⁵My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.  ²⁶I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.  ²⁷Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.  ²⁸My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy … Continue Reading ››

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;  ²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;  ³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;  ⁴If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid … Continue Reading ››

Proverbs 1:1-7 Proverbs 1 1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5A wise man will hear, … Continue Reading ››

 ¹Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.  ²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.  ³They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.  ⁴Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.  ⁵O that my ways were … Continue Reading ››

¹And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.  ²And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. … Continue Reading ››

 ¹O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

 ²Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.  ³Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.  ⁴For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.  ^{Continue Reading ››}

⁴Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.  ⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?  ⁶But he giveth more grace. … Continue Reading ››

⁷Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  ⁸He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.  ⁹In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the … Continue Reading ››

⁶O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.  ⁷Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.  ⁸Yet the LORD will command his … Continue Reading ››