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Psalm 124

¹If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;
²If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
³Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
⁴Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
⁵Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
⁶Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

¹⁴But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
¹⁵But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
¹⁶Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
¹⁷For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
¹⁸For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
²²Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

¹⁶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
¹⁷But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
¹⁸And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
¹⁹But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
²⁰For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
²¹And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
²²And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.