• Psalm 27

    Of David.

    1 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
    whom shall I fear?
    The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
    of whom shall I be afraid?
    2 When evildoers assail me
    to eat up my flesh,
    my adversaries and foes,
    it is they who stumble and fall.
    3 Though an army encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear;
    though war arise against me,
    yet I will be confident.

    4 One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
    that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
    to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord
    and to inquire in His temple.
    5 For He will hide me in His shelter
    in the day of trouble;
    He will conceal me under the cover of His tent;
    He will lift me high upon a rock.
    6 And now my head shall be lifted up
    above my enemies all around me,
    and I will offer in His tent
    sacrifices with shouts of joy;
    I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

    7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
    be gracious to me and answer me!

    8 You have said, “Seek my face.”
    My heart says to you,
    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”
    9 Hide not your face from me.
    Turn not your servant away in anger,
    O you who have been my help.
    Cast me not off; forsake me not,
    O God of my salvation!
    10 For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the Lord will take me in.

    11 Teach me your way, O Lord,
    and lead me on a level path
    because of my enemies.
    12 Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
    for false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they breathe out violence.
    13 I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord
    in the land of the living!
    14 Wait for the Lord;
    be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    wait for the Lord!

  • Psalm 28: 6-9

    6 Blessed be the Lord!
    For He has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.

    7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in Him my heart trusts, and I am helped;

    my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to Him.

    8 The Lord is the strength of His people;
    He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

    9 Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
    Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

  • Psalm 29

    A Psalm of David.

    1 Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

    2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name;
    worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

    3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
    the God of glory thunders,
    the Lord, over many waters.

    4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
    the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

    5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
    6 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
    and Sirion like a young wild ox.

    7 The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.

    8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

    9 The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth
    and strips the forests bare,
    and in His temple all cry, “Glory!”

    10 The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;
    the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

    11 May the Lord give strength to His people!
    May the Lord bless His people with peace!

  • 1 John 4: 1-6

    4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,

    which you heard was coming

    and now is in the world already.

    4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

    6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us.

    By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

  • 诗篇 122

    大卫朝圣之歌

    1 人对我说:“我们到耶和华的殿那里去”,
    我就欢喜。

    2 耶路撒冷啊!
    我们的脚正站在你的门内。
    3 耶路撒冷被建造,
    好象一座结构完整的城巿。
    4 众支派,就是耶和华的支派,
    都上那里去;
    照着以色列的定例,
    称颂耶和华的名。

    5 因为在那里设有审判的宝座,
    就是大卫家的宝座

    6 你们要为耶路撒冷求平安,说:
    “耶路撒冷啊!愿爱你的人都亨通。
    7 愿你的城墙内有平安,
    愿你的宫殿中有安稳。”
    8 为了我的兄弟和朋友的缘故,
    我要说:“愿你中间有平安。”

    9 为了耶和华我们 神的殿的缘故,
    我要为你求福乐。

  • 1 John 4: 7-21

    4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us,

    that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

    11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12 No one has ever seen God;

    if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

    13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

    16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

    God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

  • Mark 4: 35-41

    4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.

    And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”

    39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

    40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”

    41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

  • Mark 5: 1-20

    1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.

    3 He lived among the tombs.

    And no one could bind him anymore,

    not even with a chain,

    4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains,

    but he wrenched the chains apart,

    and he broke the shackles in pieces.

    No one had the strength to subdue him.

    5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

    6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”


    9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

    11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,

    12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”

    13 So he gave them permission.

    And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs;

    and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.

    14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country.


    And people came to see what it was that had happened.

    15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind,

    and they were afraid.

    16 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.

    17 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.


    18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.

    19 And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”

    20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.

  • Mark 6: 1-6

    1 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue,

    and many who heard him were astonished, saying,

    “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?

    3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?”

    And they took offense at him.

    4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”

    5 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

    6 And he marveled because of their unbelief.

    And he went about among the villages teaching.

  • Mark 9: 1-10

    1 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

    2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

    And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. 5 And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6 For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.

    7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”

    8 And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.

    9 And as they were coming down the mountain,

    he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10 So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.