1131 Praise Yah!
Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
praise the name of Yahweh. 2 Blessed be the name of Yahweh,
from this time forth and forevermore. 3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
Yahweh’s name is to be praised. 4 Yahweh is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like Yahweh, our God,
who has his seat on high, 6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth? 7 He raises up the poor out of the dust.
Lifts up the needy from the ash heap; 8 that he may set him with princes,
even with the princes of his people. 9 He settles the barren woman in her home,
as a joyful mother of children.
Praise Yah!
1141 When Israel went forth out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language; 2 Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion. 3 The sea saw it, and fled.
The Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams,
the little hills like lambs. 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled?
You Jordan, that you turned back? 6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams;
you little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of waters.
1151 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to your name give glory,
for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake. 2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God, now?” 3 But our God is in the heavens.
He does whatever he pleases. 4 Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands. 5 They have mouths, but they don’t speak.
They have eyes, but they don’t see. 6 They have ears, but they don’t hear.
They have noses, but they don’t smell. 7 They have hands, but they don’t feel.
They have feet, but they don’t walk,
neither do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them will be like them;
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
9 Israel, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield. 10 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield. 11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield. 12 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us.
He will bless the house of Israel.
He will bless the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
both small and great. 14 May Yahweh increase you more and more,
you and your children. 15 Blessed are you by Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth. 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh;
but the earth has he given to the children of men. 17 The dead don’t praise Yah,
neither any who go down into silence; 18 But we will bless Yah,
from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise Yah!
61 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. 13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.” [1] 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
