129 Your testimonies are wonderful; ♦︎
therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The opening of your word gives light; ♦︎
it gives understanding to the simple.
131 I open my mouth and draw in my breath, ♦︎
as I long for your commandments.
132 Turn to me and be gracious to me, ♦︎
as is your way with those who love your name.
133 Order my steps by your word, ♦︎
and let no wickedness have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from earthly oppressors ♦︎
so that I may keep your commandments.
135 Show the light of your countenance upon your servant ♦︎
and teach me your statutes.
136 My eyes run down with streams of water, ♦︎
because the wicked do not keep your law.
137 Righteous are you, O Lord, ♦︎
and true are your judgements.
138 You have ordered your decrees in righteousness ♦︎
and in great faithfulness.
139 My indignation destroys me, ♦︎
because my adversaries forget your word.
140 Your word has been tried to the uttermost ♦︎
and so your servant loves it.
141 I am small and of no reputation, ♦︎
yet do I not forget your commandments.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness ♦︎
and your law is the truth.
143 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me, ♦︎
yet my delight is in your commandments.
144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting; ♦︎
O grant me understanding and I shall live.
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2When I came to you, brothers and sisters,* I did not come proclaiming the mystery* of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. 2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom,* but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish.
7But we speak Gods wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
8None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But, as it is written,
What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him
10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
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