43:16
Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path
in the mighty waters,
43:17
who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they
lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished,
quenched like a wick:
43:18
Do not remember the former things, or consider the
things of old.
43:19
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do
you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
43:20
The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the
ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in
the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,
43:21
the people whom I formed for myself so that they might
declare my praise.
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126:1
When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were
like those who dream.
126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue
with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
126:3
The LORD has done great things for us, and we rejoiced.
126:4
Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in
the Negeb.
126:5
May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy.
126:6
Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their
sheaves.
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3:4b
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh,
I have more:
3:5
circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of
Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of
Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
3:6
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to
righteousness under the law, blameless.
3:7
Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as
loss because of Christ.
3:8
More than that, I regard everything as loss because of
the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and
I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain
Christ
3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my
own that comes from the law, but one that comes through
faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on
faith.
3:10
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection
and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him
in his death,
3:11
if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
3:12
Not that I have already obtained this or have already
reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own,
because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
3:13
Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own;
but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and
straining forward to what lies ahead,
3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly
call of God in Christ Jesus.
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12:1
Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the
home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
12:2
There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and
Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.
12:3
Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard,
anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The
house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
12:4
But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who
was about to betray him), said,
12:5
"Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred
denarii and the money given to the poor?"
12:6
(He said this not because he cared about the poor, but
because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and
used to steal what was put into it.)
12:7
Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that
she might keep it for the day of my burial.
12:8
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always
have me."
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