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Psalm 116

¹I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
²Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
⁴Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
⁵Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
⁶The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
⁷Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
⁸For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
⁹I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
¹⁰I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
¹¹I said in my haste, All men are liars.
¹²What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?
¹³I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁴I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
¹⁶O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
¹⁷I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
¹⁹In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

³¹Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
³²Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
³³Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
³⁴Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
³⁵Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?
³⁶Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
³⁷Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
³⁸When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

18At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
²And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
³And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
⁵And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
⁶But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
⁷Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
⁸Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
⁹And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
¹⁰Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
¹¹For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
¹²How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
¹³And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
¹⁴Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.