Psalms 131:1

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Let brotherly love continue.

Then Yahweh’s Spirit will come mightily on you, and you will prophesy with them, and will be turned into another man.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he will live, and he will escape with his life.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

For I will surely save you, and you won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life; because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’ ”

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”

Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and little known?”

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.