21And you, though you had been, in times past, understood to be foreigners and enemies, with works of evil, 22yet now he has reconciled you, by his body of flesh, through death, so as to offer you, holy and immaculate and blameless, before him. 23So then, continue in the faith: well-founded and steadfast and immovable, by the hope of the Gospel that you have heard, which has been preached throughout all creation under heaven, the Gospel of which I, Paul, have become a minister.
3Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your virtue. 4O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. 5For strangers have risen up against me, and the strong have sought my soul. And they have not set God before their eyes. 6For behold, God is my helper, and the Lord is the protector of my soul. 7Turn back the evils upon my adversaries, and ruin them by your truth. 8I will freely sacrifice to you, and I will confess your name, O God, because it is good.
1Now it happened that, on the second first Sabbath, as he passed through the grain field, his disciples were separating the ears of grain and eating them, by rubbing them in their hands. 2Then certain Pharisees said to them, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbaths?” 3And responding to them, Jesus said: “Have you not read this, what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him? 4How he entered into the house of God, and took the bread of the Presence, and ate it, and gave it to those who were with him, though it is not lawful for anyone to eat it, except the priests alone?” 5And he said to them, “For the Son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”