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Psalm 75

¹Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
²When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
³The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
⁴I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
⁵Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
⁶For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
⁷But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
⁸For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
⁹But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
¹⁰All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

²⁴And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
²⁵And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
²⁶And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
²⁷And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
²⁸For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
²⁹And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
³⁰And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
³¹And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
³²Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
³³And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
³⁴And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
³⁵I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
³⁶Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
³⁷Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
³⁸And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
³⁹And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.

10Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
²But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
⁶And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
⁷Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
⁸For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
⁹That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
¹⁰For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
¹¹Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
¹²For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
¹³But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
¹⁴For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
¹⁵Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
¹⁶To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
¹⁷But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
¹⁸For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.