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Psalm 49

¹Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
²Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
³My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
⁴I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
⁵Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
⁶They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
⁷None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
⁸(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
⁹That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
¹⁰For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
¹²Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
¹³This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
¹⁴Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
¹⁶Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
¹⁷For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

⁸Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
⁹And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
¹⁰So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
¹¹And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
¹²But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
¹³And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
¹⁴And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
¹⁵And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
¹⁶For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

6Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
²Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
³And this will we do, if God permit.
⁴For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
⁵And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
⁶If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
⁷For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
⁸But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
⁹But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
¹⁰For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
¹¹And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
¹²That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.