He removed his back from burdens; his hands slaved in making the baskets.

And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

You know that when you were Gentiles, how you were led, being carried away to these speechless idols.

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to You: forget not forever the souls of Your poor.

And He brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes.

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

[This translation omits this verse.]

[This translation omits this verse.]

And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, [Let there be] life out of your blood;

And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [it was] your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore [an oath] to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine.

And I clothed you with embroidered [garments], and clothed you beneath with purple, and girded you with fine linen, and clothed you with silk,

And I put a pendant in your nose, and rings in your ears, and a crown of glory on your head.

And your name went forth among the nations because of your beauty; because it was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.

And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine were eating, and no one gave him anything.

But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put [it] on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

in order that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of water by the word,

that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

and He made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.