Bible Browser

Psalm 126

¹When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
²Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
³The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
⁴Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.
⁵They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
⁶He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Psalm 128

¹Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.
²For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
³Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
⁴Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
⁵The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
⁶Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

⁵⁴And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
⁵⁵And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
⁵⁶Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
⁵⁷The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
⁵⁸That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
⁵⁹And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
⁶⁰That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.
⁶¹Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
⁶²And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.
⁶³And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

4Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
²For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
⁵Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
⁶That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
⁸He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
⁹But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
¹⁰And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
¹¹And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
¹²That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.