Behold, are not My words as fire? Says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Now having heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty by God to the pulling down of strongholds,

For the word of God is living and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob; this is he that strengthened Israel from the God of your father;

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony of Asaph, A Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guides Joseph like a flock; You who sit upon the cherubim, manifest Yourself;

He shall tend His flock as a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and He shall soothe them that are with young.

And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, [even] My servant David, and he shall be their shepherd;

I am the good shepherd; and I know My [own], and I am known by My own.

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.