Leviticus chapter 25

And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.

That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest to the land.

And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger that sojournes with you.

And for your cattle, and for the beast that are in your land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

And you shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty and nine years.

Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed.

For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

In the year of this jubilee you shall return every man to his possession.

And if you sell ought to your neighbor, or buy ought of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to you:

According to the multitude of years you shall increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years you shall diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits does he sell to you.

You shall not therefore oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

Why you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

And the land shall yield her fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

Then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you shall eat of the old store.

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

If your brother be waxen poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.

But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

You shall not give him your money on usury, nor lend him your victuals for increase.

I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

And if your brother that dwells by you be waxen poor, and be sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you to the year of jubilee.

And then shall he depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as slaves.

You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall you buy slaves and bondmaids.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your slaves for ever: but over your brothers the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him wax poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brothers may redeem him:

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

If there be yet many years behind, according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Psalm chapter 25

A Psalm of David. To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.

Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Turn you to me, and have mercy on me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.

Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psalm chapter 26

A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.

LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me.

My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

Acts chapter 22

Men, brothers, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now to you.

(And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he said, )

I am truly a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.

And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound to Jerusalem, for to be punished.

And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come near to Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me?

And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.

And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.

And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told you of all things which are appointed for you to do.

And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelled there,

Came to me, and stood, and said to me, Brother Saul, receive your sight. And the same hour I looked up on him.

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will, and see that Just One, and should hear the voice of his mouth.

For you shall be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

And now why tarry you? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;

And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and get you quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on you:

And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.

And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.

And they gave him audience to this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried so against him.

And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to whip a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what you do: for this man is a Roman.

Then the chief captain came, and said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? He said, Yes.

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

Leviticus chapter 25

Psalm chapter 25

Psalm chapter 26

Acts chapter 22

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