⁷ Surely, for your sake I have suf- ^| fered reproach,
  and shame has cov- ^| ered my face.
 ⁸ I have become a stranger to ^| my own kindred,
  an alien to my ^| mother’s children.
 ⁹ Zeal for your house has eat- ^| en me up;
  the scorn of those who scorn you has fall- ^| en upon me.
 ¹⁰ I humbled my- ^| self with fasting,
  but that was turned to ^| my reproach. R
[ ¹¹ I put on ^| sackcloth also,
  and became a by- ^| word among them.
 ¹² Those who sit at the gate mur- ^| mur against me,
  and the drunkards make ^| songs about me.
 ¹³ But as for me, this is my prayer to you, at the time you have ^| set, O Lord:
  “In your great mercy, O God, answer me with your un- ^| failing help.
 ¹⁴ Save me from the mire; do not ^| let me sink;
  let me be rescued from those who hate me and out of ^| the deep waters. R
 ¹⁵ Let not the torrent of waters wash over me, neither let the deep swal- ^| low me up;
  do not let the pit shut its ^| mouth upon me.
]  ¹⁶ Answer me, O Lord, for your ^| love is kind;
  in your great compassion, ^| turn to me.
 ¹⁷ Hide not your face ^| from your servant;
  be swift and answer me, for I am ^| in distress.
 ¹⁸ Draw near to me ^| and redeem me;
  because of my enemies de- ^| liver me. R

^1b Should we continue in sin in order that grace may increase? ² By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? ³ Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
  ⁵ For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷ For whoever has died is freed from sin. ⁸ But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

[Jesus said to the twelve:] ²⁴ “A disciple is not above the teacher nor a slave above the master; ²⁵ it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!

  ²⁶ “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered and nothing secret that will not become known. ²⁷ What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. ²⁸ Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. ³⁰ And even the hairs of your head are all counted. ³¹ So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
  ³² “Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven, ³³ but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.

  ³⁴ “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.
 ³⁵ For I have come to set a man against his father,
 and a daughter against her mother,
 and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
 ³⁶ and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.
³⁷ “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, ³⁸ and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.”