Psalm 17Psalm 181 Corinthians 11.2-34Psalm 17
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Be my judge for your eyes see what is right.
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You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me I will keep my mouth from sin.
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As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
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I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.
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My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.
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Make clear the wonder of your mercy, O saviour of those who put their faith in your right hand, from those who come out against them.
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Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,
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From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.
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They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.
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They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth
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Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
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Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.
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With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
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As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
Psalm 18
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I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.
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The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
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I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
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The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
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The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
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Then trouble and shock came on the earth and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
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There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.
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The heavens were bent, so that he might come down and it was dark under his feet.
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And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.
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He made the dark his secret place his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
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Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.
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The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.
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He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions by his flames of fire they were troubled.
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Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.
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He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
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He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.
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They came on me in the day of my trouble but the Lord was my support.
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He took me out into a wide place he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
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The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
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For I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
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For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
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And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
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Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
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On him who has mercy you will have mercy to the upright you will be upright
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He who is holy will see that you are holy but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
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For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble but eyes full of pride will be made low.
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You, O Lord, will be my light by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
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By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.
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As for God, his way is completely good the word of the Lord is tested he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.
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For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?
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God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.
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He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.
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He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
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You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.
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You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.
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I go after my haters and overtake them not turning back till they are all overcome.
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I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
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For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
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By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
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They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
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Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
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You have made me free from the fightings of the people you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
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From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.
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They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.
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The Lord is living praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.
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It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
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He makes me free from my haters I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.
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Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.
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Great salvation does he give to his king he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.
1 Corinthians 11
2-34
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Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.
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But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
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Every man who takes part in prayer, or gives teaching as a prophet, with his head covered, puts shame on his head.
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But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.
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For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.
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For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
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For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.
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And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.
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For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
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But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.
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For as the woman is from the man, so the man is through the woman but all things are from God.
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Be judges yourselves of the question: does it seem right for a woman to take part in prayer unveiled?
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Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?
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But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.
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But if any man will not be ruled in this question, this is not our way of doing things, and it is not done in the churches of God.
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But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
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For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.
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For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.
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But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:
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For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.
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What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.
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For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,
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And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.
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In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.
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For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
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If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.
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But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.
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For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.
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For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
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But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
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But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
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So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.
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If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
