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Song
of Solomon 2:8-13
Psalm
45:1-2, 6-9
James
1:17-27
Mark
7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Song
of Solomon 2:8-13
2:8
The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the
mountains, bounding over the hills.
2:9
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he
stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through
the lattice.
2:10
My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair
one, and come away;
2:11
for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
2:12
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and
the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
2:13
The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come
away.
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Psalm
45:1-2, 6-9
45:1 My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses
to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
45:2
You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips;
therefore God has blessed you forever.
45:6
Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter
is a scepter of equity;
45:7
you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your
God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your
companions;
45:8
your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From
ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;
45:9
daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right
hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
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James
1:17-27
1:17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is
from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there
is no variation or shadow due to change.
1:18
In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of
truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his
creatures.
1:19
You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to
listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;
1:20
for your anger does not produce God's righteousness.
1:21
Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of
wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has
the power to save your souls.
1:22
But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive
themselves.
1:23
For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like
those who look at themselves in a mirror;
1:24
for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget
what they were like.
1:25
But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and
persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act--they
will be blessed in their doing.
1:26
If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues
but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.
1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is
this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to
keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Mark
7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come
from Jerusalem gathered around him,
7:2
they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled
hands, that is, without washing them.
7:3
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they
thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the
elders;
7:4
and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;
and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the
washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)
7:5
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your
disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but
eat with defiled hands?"
7:6
He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you
hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their
lips, but their hearts are far from me;
7:7
in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'
7:8
You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human
tradition."
7:14
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to
me, all of you, and understand:
7:15
there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but
the things that come out are what defile."
7:21
For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions
come: fornication, theft, murder,
7:22
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy,
slander, pride, folly.
7:23
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a
person."
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