Psalm 25
By David
1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; 
2 in you I trust, O my God. 
Do not let me be put to shame, 
nor let my enemies triumph over me. 

3 No one whose hope is in you 
will ever be put to shame, 
but they will be put to shame 
who are treacherous without excuse. 

4 Show me your ways, O LORD, 
teach me your paths; 

5 guide me in your truth and teach me, 
for you are God my Savior, 
and my hope is in you all day long. 

6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, 
for they are from of old. 

7 Remember not the sins of my youth 
and my rebellious ways; 
according to your love remember me, 
for you are good, O LORD. 

8 Good and upright is the LORD; 
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. 

9 He guides the humble in what is right 
and teaches them his way. 

10 All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful 
for those who keep the demands of his covenant. 

11 For the sake of your name, O LORD, 
forgive my iniquity, though it is great. 

12 Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD ? 
He will instruct him in the way chosen for him. 

13 He will spend his days in prosperity, 
and his descendants will inherit the land. 

14 The LORD confides in those who fear him; 
he makes his covenant known to them. 

15 My eyes are ever on the LORD, 
for only he will release my feet from the snare. 

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, 
for I am lonely and afflicted. 

17 The troubles of my heart have multiplied; 
free me from my anguish. 

18 Look upon my affliction and my distress 
and take away all my sins. 

19 See how my enemies have increased 
and how fiercely they hate me! 

20 Guard my life and rescue me; 
let me not be put to shame, 
for I take refuge in you. 

21 May integrity and uprightness protect me, 
because my hope is in you. 

22 Redeem Israel, O God, 
from all their troubles!

Matthew 19:1-12
Divorce 
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" 

4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." 

7 "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?" 

8 Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery." 

10 The disciples said to him, "If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry." 

11 Jesus replied, "Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it."

Philippians 3
No Confidence in the Flesh 
1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 
2 Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence. 
If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. 

7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.