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Psalm 4

¹Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
²O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
³But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
⁴Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
⁵Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.
⁶There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
⁷Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
⁸I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Psalm 8

¹O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
⁹O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
⁹Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
¹²The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
¹³There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
¹⁴But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
¹⁵As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
¹⁶And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
¹⁸Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
¹⁹Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
²⁰For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

¹⁵Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
¹⁶And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
¹⁷Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
¹⁸But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
¹⁹Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
²⁰And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
²¹They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
²²When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
²³The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
²⁴Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
²⁵Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
²⁶Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
²⁷And last of all the woman died also.
²⁸Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
²⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
³¹But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
³²I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
³³And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.