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Psalm 124

¹If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;
²If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
³Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
⁴Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
⁵Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
⁶Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

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.

⁸And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
⁹And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
¹⁰Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
¹¹And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
¹²And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
¹³And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
¹⁴And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
¹⁵And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
¹⁶And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
¹⁷And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

¹⁴These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
¹⁵But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
¹⁶And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

4Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
²Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
³Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
⁵For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.