⁷   I will recount the gracious deeds of the LORD,
          the praiseworthy acts of the LORD,
     because of all that the LORD has done for us,
          and the great favor to the house of Israel
     that he has shown them according to his mercy,
          according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁸   For he said, “Surely they are my people,
          children who will not deal falsely”;
     and he became their savior
⁹        in all their distress.
     It was no messenger or angel
          but his presence that saved them;
     in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
          he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰  But they rebelled
          and grieved his holy spirit;
     therefore he became their enemy;
          he himself fought against them.
¹¹  Then they remembered the days of old,
          of Moses his servant.
     Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea
          with the shepherds of his flock?
     Where is the one who put within them
          his holy spirit,
¹²  who caused his glorious arm
          to march at the right hand of Moses,
     who divided the waters before them
          to make for himself an everlasting name,
¹³      who led them through the depths?
     Like a horse in the desert,
          they did not stumble.
¹⁴  Like cattle that go down into the valley,
          the spirit of the LORD gave them rest.
     Thus you led your people,
          to make for yourself a glorious name.

^1:18I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, ¹⁹having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have suffered shipwreck in the faith; ²⁰among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

^2:1  First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, ²for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity. ³This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁵For
     there is one God;
          there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
     Christ Jesus, himself human,
⁶        who gave himself a ransom for all
— this was attested at the right time. ⁷For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument; ⁹also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, ¹⁰but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God. ¹¹Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. ¹²I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent. ¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve; ¹⁴and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. ¹⁵Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

¹²On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. ¹³Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. ¹⁴He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. ¹⁵Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; ¹⁶and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. ¹⁷He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
     ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
          But you have made it a den of robbers.”
¹⁸And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. ¹⁹And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.

²⁰In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. ²¹Then Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” Jesus answered them, ²²“Have faith in God. ²³Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. ²⁴So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

²⁵“Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.” [Other ancient authorities add verse 26, “But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”]