17:5
Thus says the LORD: Cursed are those who trust in mere
mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts
turn away from the LORD.
17:6
They shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not
see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched
places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
17:7
Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, whose trust is
the LORD.
17:8
They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out
its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat
comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of
drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear
fruit.
17:9
The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse--
who can understand it?
17:10
I the LORD test the mind and search the heart, to give
to all according to their ways, according to the fruit
of their doings.
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1:1
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the
wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in
the seat of scoffers;
1:2
but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his
law they meditate day and night.
1:3
They are like trees planted by streams of water, which
yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not
wither. In all that they do, they prosper.
1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind
drives away.
1:5
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
1:6
for the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but
the way of the wicked will perish.
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15:12
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how
can some of you say there is no resurrection of the
dead?
15:13
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has
not been raised;
15:14
and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation
has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.
15:15
We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we
testified of God that he raised Christ--whom he did not
raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
15:16
For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been
raised.
15:17
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and
you are still in your sins.
15:18
Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.
15:19
If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of
all people most to be pitied.
15:20
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the
first fruits of those who have died.
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6:17
He came down with them and stood on a level place, with
a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of
people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre
and Sidon.
6:18 They had come to hear him and to be healed of their
diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean
spirits were cured.
6:19 And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for
power came out from him and healed all of them.
6:20 Then he looked up at his disciples and said:
"Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the
kingdom of God.
6:21 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you
will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep now, for
you will laugh.
6:22 "Blessed are you when people hate you, and
when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on
account of the Son of Man.
6:23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely
your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their
ancestors did to the prophets.
6:24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have
received your consolation.
6:25 "Woe to you who are full now, for you will be
hungry. "Woe to you who are laughing now, for you
will mourn and weep.
6:26 "Woe to you when all speak well of you, for
that is what their ancestors did to the false
prophets."
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