Psalms 39
39:1 -
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a
bridle, while the wicked is before me.
39:2 -
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
39:3 -
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my
tongue,
39:4 -
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may
know how frail I am.
39:5 -
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee:
verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
39:6 -
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up
riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
39:7 -
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
39:8 -
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
39:9 -
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
39:10 -
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
39:11 -
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume
away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
39:12 -
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I
am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
39:13 -
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
John 15:1 - 17
15:1 -
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
15:2 -
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit,
he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
15:3 -
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
15:4 -
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine;
no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
15:5 -
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth
forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
15:6 -
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them,
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
15:7 -
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
unto you.
15:8 -
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
15:9 -
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
15:10 -
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.
15:11 -
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy
might be full.
15:12 -
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
15:13 -
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
15:14 -
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15:15 -
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I
have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto
you.
15:16 -
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and
bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father
in my name, he may give it you.
15:17 -
These things I command you, that ye love one another.