Psalm 101

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Psalm 101

Of David. A psalm.

¹I will sing of your love^(A) and justice;
to you, Lord, I will sing praise.
²I will be careful to lead a blameless life^(B)—
when will you come to me?

I will conduct the affairs^(C) of my house
with a blameless heart.
³I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.^(D)

I hate what faithless people do;^(E)
I will have no part in it.
⁴The perverse of heart^(F) shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with what is evil.

⁵Whoever slanders their neighbor^(G) in secret,
I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes^(H) and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate.

⁶My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
the one whose walk is blameless^(I)
will minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.

⁸Every morning^(J) I will put to silence
all the wicked^(K) in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer^(L)
from the city of the Lord.^(M)

1 Kings 8:1-21

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The Ark Brought to the Temple^(A)

8 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs^(B) of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark^(C) of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.^(D) ²All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival^(E) in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.^(F)

³When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests^(G) took up the ark, ⁴and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting^(H) and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites^(I) carried them up, ⁵and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing^(J) so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.

⁶The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant^(K) to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place,^(L) and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.^(M) ⁷The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed^(N) the ark and its carrying poles. ⁸These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.^(O) ⁹There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets^(P) that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

¹⁰When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud^(Q) filled the temple of the Lord. ¹¹And the priests could not perform their service^(R) because of the cloud, for the glory^(S) of the Lord filled his temple.

¹²Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;^(T) ¹³I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell^(U) forever.”

¹⁴While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed^(V) them. ¹⁵Then he said:

“Praise be to the Lord,^(W) the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David. For he said, ¹⁶‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt,^(X) I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name^(Y) might be there, but I have chosen^(Z) David^(AA) to rule my people Israel.’

¹⁷“My father David had it in his heart^(AB) to build a temple^(AC) for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁸But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name. ¹⁹Nevertheless, you^(AD) are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own flesh and blood—he is the one who will build the temple for my Name.’^(AE)

²⁰“The Lord has kept the promise he made: I have succeeded^(AF) David my father and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built^(AG) the temple for the Name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ²¹I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”

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Mark 8:14-21

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The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod

¹⁴The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. ¹⁵“Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast^(A) of the Pharisees^(B) and that of Herod.”^(C)

¹⁶They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”

¹⁷Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?^(D) ¹⁸Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? ¹⁹When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”

“Twelve,”^(E) they replied.

²⁰“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”

They answered, “Seven.”^(F)

²¹He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”^(G)

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