Out of the mouth of babes and infants You have perfected praise, because of Your enemies; that You might put down the enemy and avenger.

who has humbled and brought down them that dwell on high; You shall cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.

And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

Therefore behold, I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them; and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.

and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

And I will leave in you a meek and lowly people;

Now as He was walking alongside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

They immediately left their nets and followed Him.

And immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.

And as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." And arising, he followed Him.

At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.

and said to Him, "Do You hear what these [children] are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise'?"

And some of the Pharisees said to Him from the crowd, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."

But He answered and said to them, "I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out."

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict nor to withstand.

This is the 'stone which was rejected by you, the builders, which became the chief cornerstone.'

Now when they observed the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

And they commanded them to go away outside the council, and began to confer among themselves,

But lest it be spread further among the people, let us threaten them with a threat, to speak no longer in this name."

But Peter and John answered them and said, "Whether it is right before God to hear you rather than God, you judge.

So having threatened them further, they released them, finding no way of punishing them, on account of the people, because they all were glorifying God over that which had occurred.

But there arose some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, both of the Cyrenians and the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, debating with Stephen.

And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

This Moses whom they denied, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?' This man God sent as a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Now hearing these things they were infuriated in their hearts, and were gnashing their teeth against him.

And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others [said], "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

Now after some days, when Felix arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment which is going to be, Felix became afraid and answered, "Go away for now; but when I have opportunity I will summon you."

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, so that the extraordinary character of the power may be of God and not of us;

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

casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,

"For his letters," they say, "are severe and boisterous, but his bodily presence [is] feeble, and his speech amounts to nothing."