² and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:

³⁵ that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

²⁰ And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God.

²¹ `Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

²² `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

²³ rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward `is' great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

²⁴ `But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

²⁵ `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

²⁶ `Wo to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

³⁵ and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.

³⁴ And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

¹⁴ and Paul being about to open `his' mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, `If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,

¹⁹ and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

¹ After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

² I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

⁶ Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips `is' uprightness.