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Psalm 41

¹Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
²The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
³The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
⁴I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
⁵Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
⁶And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
⁷All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
⁸An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
¹⁰But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
¹¹By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
¹²And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
¹³Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

18And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
²And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
³And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
⁴For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
⁵And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
⁶So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
⁷And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
⁸And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
⁹And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
¹⁰As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
¹¹And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
¹²And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.
¹³Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
¹⁴And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
¹⁵And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.

¹²Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
¹⁶Do not err, my beloved brethren.
¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
¹⁸Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.