Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name!

Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits—

Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases,

Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption, Who beautifies, dignifies, and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercy;

Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation] with good so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagle’s [strong, overcoming, soaring]!

He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.

When evening came, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and He drove out the spirits with a word and restored to health all who were sick.

And thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He Himself took [in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases.

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy].

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.

So be subject to God.
Resist the devil [stand firm against him],
and he will flee from you.

 He sends forth His word and heals them
and rescues them from the pit and destruction.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was making it grow and [He] gave the increase.

 Now the meaning of the parable is this: The seed is the Word of God.

Those along the traveled road are the people who have heard; then the devil comes and carries away the message out of their hearts, that they may not believe ^]acknowledge Me as their Savior and devote themselves to Me) and be saved [here and hereafter].
 

And those upon the rock [are the people] who, when they hear [the Word], receive and welcome it with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, and in time of trial and temptation fall away (withdraw and stand aloof).
 

And as for what fell among the thorns, these are [the people] who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked and suffocated with the anxieties and cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not ripen (come to maturity and perfection).
 

But as for that [seed] in the good soil, these are [the people] who, hearing the Word, hold it fast in a just (noble, virtuous) and worthy heart, and steadily bring forth fruit with patience.

 For we walk by faith [ we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.

For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).

By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who has been preached among you by us, by myself, Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No; but in Him it is [always the divine] Yes.

For as many as are the promises of God, they all find the Yes [answer] in Him [Christ].  For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.

Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain Be lifted up and thrown into the sea and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.

 

For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].

So also faith, if it does not have works
(deeds and actions of obedience to back it up),
by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead).

Do you discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God's temple (His sanctuary), and that God's Spirit has permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, collectively as a church and also individually]?
  

If anyone does hurt to God's temple or corrupts it [with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [the believing church and its individual believers] are.

Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own,

You were bought with the price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.

Then He touched their eyes, saying,
According to your faith and trust and
reliance [on the power invested in Me]
be it done to you;

For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

But [that appointed time came] when Christ (the Messiah appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come. [Then] through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made of the [human] ands, that is, not a part of this material creation.

He went once for all into the [Holy of] Holies [of heaven], not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption ( an everlasting release for us).

Never forget 911

For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him.

Afterward, when Jesus found him in the temple, He said to him, "See, you are well! Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

 But God's free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man].
For if many died through one man's falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God's grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of ] many.

And there was a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, and who had endured much suffering under [the hands of ] many physicians and had spent all that she had, and was no better but instead grew worse.

She had heard the reports concerning Jesus, and she came up behind Him in the throng and touched His garment, for she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health.

And immediately her flow of blood was dried up at the source and [suddenly] she felt in her body that she was healed of her [distressing] ailment.

Is anyone among you sick?

He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with the oil in the Lord's name.

And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

And behold, a leper came up to Him and prostrating himself, worshiped Him, saying Lord, if you are willing, You are able to cleanse me by curing me.

And He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed by being cured.

And instantly his leprosy was cured and cleansed.

But she came and, kneeling, worshiped Him and kept praying, 'Lord, help me!'

And He answered, 'It is not right (proper, becoming, or fair) to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.'

She said, 'Yes, Lord, yet even the little pups (little whelps) eat the crumbs that fall from their [young] master's table.'

Then Jesus answered her, 'O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you wish.'

And her daughter was cured from that moment.

Behold! I have given you authority and power
to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and
[physical and mental strength and ability]
over all the power that the enemy [possesses];
and nothing shall in any way harm you.

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.

 And there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had an infirmity caused by a spirit (a demon of sickness). She was bent completely forward and utterly unable to straighten herself up or to look upward.

And when Jesus saw her, He called [her to Him] and said to her, Woman, you are released from your infirmity!

Then He laid [His] hands on her, and instantly she was made straight, and she recognized and thanked and praised God.