1201 In my trouble I cried to the Lord , And He answered me. 2 Deliver my soul , O Lord , from lying lips , From a deceitful tongue . 3 What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, You deceitful tongue ? 4 Sharp arrows of the warrior , With the burning coals of the broom tree .
5 Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech , For I dwell among the tents of Kedar ! 6 Too long has my soul had its dwelling With those who hate peace . 7 I am for peace , but when I speak , They are for war .
1211 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains ; From where shall my help come ? 2 My help comes from the Lord , Who made heaven and earth . 3 He will not allow your foot to slip ; He who keeps you will not slumber . 4 Behold , He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep . 5 The Lord is your keeper ; The Lord is your shade on your right hand . 6 The sun will not smite you by day , Nor the moon by night . 7 The Lord will protect you from all evil ; He will keep your soul . 8 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever e .
1221 I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the Lord ." 2 Our feet are standing Within your gates , O Jerusalem , 3 Jerusalem , that is built As a city that is compact together ; 4 To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord - An ordinance for Israel - To give thanks to the name of the Lord . 5 For there thrones were set for judgment , The thrones of the house of David .
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : "May they prosper who love you. 7 "May peace be within your walls , And prosperity within your palaces ." 8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends , I will now say , " May peace be within you." 9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God , I will seek your good .
91 Am I not free ? Am I not an apostle ? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord ? Are you not my work in the Lord ? 2 If to others I am not an apostle , at least e I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord .
3 My defense to those who examine me is this : 4 Do we not have a right to eat and drink ? 5 Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife , even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas ? 6 Or do only Barnabas and I not have a right to refrain from working ? 7 Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense ? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Or who tends a flock and does not use the milk of the flock ? 8 I am not speaking these things according to human judgment , am I? Or does not the Law also say these things ? 9 For it is written in the Law of Moses , " YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING ." God is not concerned about oxen , is He? 10 Or is He speaking altogether for our sake ? Yes , for our sake it was written , because the plowman ought to plow in hope , and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops. 11 If we sowed spiritual things in you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12 If others share the right over you, do we not more ? Nevertheless , we did not use this right , but we endure all things so that we will cause no e hindrance to the gospel of Christ . 13 Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple , and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar ? 14 So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel .
15 But I have used none of these things . And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case ; for it would be better e for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one. 16 For if I preach the gospel , I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion ; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel . 17 For if I do this voluntarily , I have a reward ; but if against my will , I have a stewardship entrusted to me. 18 What then is my reward ? That, when I preach the gospel , I may offer the gospel without charge , so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel .
19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all , so that I may win more . 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew , so that I might win Jews ; to those who are under the Law , as under the Law though not being myself under the Law , so that I might win those who are under the Law ; 21 to those who are without law , as without law , though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ , so that I might win those who are without law . 22 To the weak I became weak , that I might win the weak ; I have become all things to all men , so that I may by all means save some . 23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel , so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run , but only one receives the prize ? Run in such a way that you may win . 25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things . They then do it to receive a perishable wreath , but we an imperishable . 26 Therefore I run in such a way , as not without aim ; I box in such a way , as not beating the air ; 27 but I discipline my body and make it my slave , so that, after I have preached to others , I myself will not be disqualified .
