Psalm 119:73-80 (NRSV) Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word.I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.Let your steadfast love become my comfort according to your…
John 4:7-14: (NRSV) A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share…
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 (NRSV) So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord…
Psalm 126 (ESV) When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion [also translated as, “or brought back those who returned to Zion”}, we were like those who dream.Then our mouth was filled with laughter,And our tongue with shouts of joy.Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”The Lord has…
Psalms 147:1-11 (KJV) He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:Who covereth the heaven with clouds,…
Psalm 91 (NRSV) You who live in the shelter of the Most High,who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress;my God, in whom I trust.”For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowlerand from the deadly pestilence;he will cover you with his pinions, and…
John 2:1-11 (NIV) On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My…
Ps. 43:3 (NIV) Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Ps. 149: (RSV) For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory. Titus 3:1-15 (NIV) Remind the people…to be ready to do…
Psalm 22:1-5 and 22-26 (RSV) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest. Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises…
Deuteronomy 7:6-12 (NRSV) For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and…