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Psalm 28

¹Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
³Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
⁵Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
⁶Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
⁸The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

8Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
²She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
³She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
⁴Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
⁵O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
⁶Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
⁷For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
⁹They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
¹¹For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
¹⁹Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
²⁰Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
²¹Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
²²Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
²⁴Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
²⁹For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
³⁰For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
³¹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
³²This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
³³Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.