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¹⁶⁹O Lord, let my supplication draw near in your sight. Grant understanding to me according to your eloquence.

²⁶But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will suggest to you everything whatsoever that I have said to you.

⁸In all things, we endure tribulation, yet we are not in anguish. We are constrained, yet we are not destitute.

¹⁹Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord.”

¹⁴⁴Your testimonies are fairness unto eternity. Give me understanding, and I will live.

¹⁵If you love me, keep my commandments.

⁷³Your hands have created me and formed me. Give me understanding, and I will learn your commandments.

¹⁶All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice, ¹⁷so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work.

⁴⁷Because you did not serve the Lord your God, with gladness and a joyful heart, over the abundance of all things. ⁴⁸You will serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send to you, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, and in destitution of all things. And he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has crushed you.

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

⁸Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; Jesus Christ forever.

¹I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore it. For I am the Lord your God. ²Observe my Sabbaths, and be fearful toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord. ³If you will walk in my precepts, and observe my commandments, and accomplish them, I will give to you rain in its time, ⁴and the ground shall bring forth its seedlings, and the trees shall be filled again with fruit. ⁵The threshing of the harvest shall last until the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing. And you shall eat your bread to fullness, and you shall live in your land without fear. ⁶I will give peace to your most distant regions. You will sleep, and there will be no one to strike you with terror. I will take away harmful wild beasts, and the sword will not cross your borders.

¹Then, seeing the crowds, he ascended the mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples drew near to him, ²and opening his mouth, he taught them, saying: ³“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ⁴Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth. ⁵Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be consoled. ⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.

³⁴Give me understanding, and I will examine your law. And I will keep it with my whole heart.