Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
MARCH
6
PSALMS:
6
PROVERBS:
6
OLD
TESTAMENT:
2 SAMUEL 9:1 - 11:21
NEW
TESTAMENT:
JOHN 15:1 - 27
PSALMS:
6
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to
sheminith.
A
A psalm of David.
1
O
LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or
discipline me in your wrath.
2
Be
merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint;
O
LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony.
3
My
soul is in anguish.
How
long, O LORD, how long?
4
Turn,
O LORD, and deliver me;
save
me because of your unfailing love.
5
No
one remembers you when he is dead.
Who
praises you from the grave B?
6
I
am worn out from groaning;
all
night long I flood my bed with weeping
and
drench my couch with tears.
7
My
eyes grow weak with sorrow;
they
fail because of all my foes.
8
Away
from me, all you who do evil,
for
the LORD has heard my weeping.
9
The
LORD has heard my cry for mercy;
the
LORD accepts my prayer.
10
All
my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;
they
will turn back in sudden disgrace. 1
PSALMS:
36
For
the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD.
1
An
oracle is within my heart
concerning
the sinfulness of the wicked: A
There
is no fear of God
before
his eyes.
2
For
in his own eyes he flatters himself
too
much to detect or hate his sin.
3
The
words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
he
has ceased to be wise and to do good.
4
Even
on his bed he plots evil;
he
commits himself to a sinful course
and
does not reject what is wrong.
5
Your
love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your
faithfulness to the skies.
6
Your
righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your
justice like the great deep.
O
LORD, you preserve both man and beast.
7
How
priceless is your unfailing love!
Both
high and low among men
find
B
refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8
They
feast on the abundance of your house;
you
give them drink from your river of delights.
9
For
with you is the fountain of life;
in
your light we see light.
10
Continue
your love to those who know you,
your
righteousness to the upright in heart.
11
May
the foot of the proud not come against me, 2
nor
the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12
See
how the evildoers lie fallen--
thrown
down, not able to rise! 3
PSALMS:
66
For
the director of music. A song. A psalm.
1
Shout
with joy to God, all the earth!
2
Sing
the glory of his name;
make
his praise glorious!
3
Say
to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
So
great is your power
that
your enemies cringe before you.
4
All
the earth bows down to you;
they
sing praise to you,
they
sing praise to your name."
Selah
5
Come
and see what God has done,
how
awesome his works in man's behalf!
6
He
turned the sea into dry land,
they
passed through the waters on foot--
come,
let us rejoice in him.
7
He
rules forever by his power,
his
eyes watch the nations--
let
not the rebellious rise up against him.
Selah
8
Praise
our God, O peoples,
let
the sound of his praise be heard;
9
he
has preserved our lives
and
kept our feet from slipping.
10
For
you, O God, tested us;
you
refined us like silver.
11
You
brought us into prison
and
laid burdens on our backs.
12
You
let men ride over our heads; 4
we
went through fire and water,
but
you brought us to a place of abundance.
13
I
will come to your temple with burnt offerings
and
fulfill my vows to you--
14
vows
my lips promised and my mouth spoke
when
I was in trouble.
15
I
will sacrifice fat animals to you
and
an offering of rams;
I
will offer bulls and goats.
Selah
16
Come
and listen, all you who fear God;
let
me tell you what he has done for me.
17
I
cried out to him with my mouth;
his
praise was on my tongue.
18
If
I had cherished sin in my heart,
the
Lord would not have listened;
19
but
God has surely listened
and
heard my voice in prayer.
20
Praise
be to God,
who
has not rejected my prayer
or
withheld his love from me! 5
PSALMS:
96
1
Sing
to the LORD a new song;
sing
to the LORD, all the earth.
2
Sing
to the LORD, praise his name;
proclaim
his salvation day after day.
3
Declare
his glory among the nations,
his
marvelous deeds among all peoples.
4
For
great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;
he
is to be feared above all gods.
5
For
all the gods of the nations are idols,
but
the LORD made the heavens.
6
Splendor
and majesty are before him;
strength
and glory are in his sanctuary.
7
Ascribe
to the LORD, O families of nations,
ascribe
to the LORD glory and strength.
8
Ascribe
to the LORD the glory due his name;
bring
an offering and come into his courts.
9
Worship
the LORD in the splendor of his A
holiness;
tremble
before him, all the earth.
10
Say
among the nations, "The
LORD reigns."
The
world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
he
will judge the peoples with equity.
11
Let
the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let
the sea resound, and all that is in it;
12
let
the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then
all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
13
they
will sing before the LORD, for he comes,
he
comes to judge the earth.
He
will judge the world in righteousness
and
the peoples in his truth. 6
PSALMS:
126
A
song of ascents.
1
When
the LORD brought back the captives to A
Zion,
we
were like men who dreamed. B
2
Our
mouths were filled with laughter,
our
tongues with songs of joy.
Then
it was said among the nations,
"The
LORD has done great things for them."
3
The
LORD has done great things for us,
and
we are filled with joy.
4
Restore
our fortunes, C
O LORD,
like
streams in the Negev.
5
Those
who sow in tears
will
reap with songs of joy.
6
He
who goes out weeping,
carrying
seed to sow,
will
return with songs of joy,
carrying
sheaves with him. 7
PROVERBS:
6
6
1
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
if
you have struck hands in pledge for another,
2
if
you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared
by the words of your mouth,
3
then
do this, my son, to free yourself,
since
you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:
Go
and humble yourself;
press
your plea with your neighbor!
4
Allow
no sleep to your eyes,
no
slumber to your eyelids.
5
Free
yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like
a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6
Go
to the ant, you sluggard;
consider
its ways and be wise!
7
It
has no commander,
no
overseer or ruler,
8
yet
it stores its provisions in summer
and
gathers its food at harvest.
9
How
long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When
will you get up from your sleep?
10
A
little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
11
and
poverty will come on you like a bandit
and
scarcity like an armed man. A
12
A
scoundrel and villain,
who
goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13
who winks with his eye,
signals
with his feet
and
motions with his fingers,
14
who plots evil with deceit in his heart--
he
always stirs up dissension.
15
Therefore
disaster will overtake him in an instant; 8
he
will suddenly be destroyed--without remedy.
16
There
are six things the LORD hates,
seven
that are detestable to him:
17
haughty
eyes,
a
lying tongue,
hands
that shed innocent blood,
18
a
heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet
that are quick to rush into evil,
19
a
false witness who pours out lies
and
a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
20
My
son, keep your father's commands
and
do not forsake your mother's teaching.
21
Bind
them upon your heart forever;
fasten
them around your neck.
22
When
you walk, they will guide you;
when
you sleep, they will watch over you;
when
you awake, they will speak to you.
23
For
these commands are a lamp,
this
teaching is a light,
and
the corrections of discipline
are
the way to life,
24
keeping
you from the immoral woman,
from
the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
25
Do
not lust in your heart after her beauty
or
let her captivate you with her eyes,
26
for
the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
and
the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27
Can
a man scoop fire into his lap
without
his clothes being burned?
28
Can
a man walk on hot coals
without
his feet being scorched?
29
So
is he who sleeps with another man's wife; 9
no
one who touches her will go unpunished.
30
Men
do not despise a thief if he steals
to
satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31
Yet
if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though
it costs him all the wealth of his house.
32
But
a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;
whoever
does so destroys himself.
33
Blows
and disgrace are his lot,
and
his shame will never be wiped away;
34
for
jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
and
he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35
He
will not accept any compensation;
he
will refuse the bribe, however great it is. 10
OLD
TESTAMENT:
2 SAMUEL 9:1 - 11:21
9
1
David
asked, "Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom
I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
2
Now
there was a servant of Saul's household named Ziba. They called him
to appear before David, and the king said to him, "Are you
Ziba?"
"Your
servant," he replied.
3
The
king asked, "Is there no one still left of the house of Saul to
whom I can show God's kindness?"
Ziba
answered the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is
crippled in both feet."
4
"Where
is he?" the king asked.
Ziba
answered, "He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo
Debar."
5
So
King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son
of Ammiel.
6
When
Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he
bowed down to pay him honor.
David
said, "Mephibosheth!"
"Your
servant," he replied.
7
"Don't
be afraid," David said to him, "for I will surely show you
kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you
all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will
always eat at my table."
8
Mephibosheth
bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you should
notice a dead dog like me?" 9
Then
the king summoned Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "I have
given your master's grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his
family.
10
You
and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and
bring in the crops, so that your master's grandson may be provided
for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my
table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
11
Then
Ziba said to the king, "Your servant will do whatever my lord
the king commands his servant to do." So Mephibosheth ate at
David's A
table like one of the king's sons.
12
Mephibosheth
had a young son named Mica, and all the members of Ziba's household
were servants of Mephibosheth. 13 And
Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king's
table, and he was crippled in both feet.
10
1
In
the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun
succeeded him as king. 2
David
thought, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as
his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation to
express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father.
When
David's men came to the land of the Ammonites, 3
the
Ammonite nobles said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think David is
honoring your father by sending men to you to express sympathy?
Hasn't David sent them to you to explore the city and spy it out and
overthrow it?" 4
So
Hanun seized David's men, shaved off half of 11
12
each man's beard, cut off their garments in the middle at the
buttocks, and sent them away.
5
When
David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for
they were greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho
till your beards have grown, and then come back."
6
When
the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench in David's
nostrils, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth
Rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maacah with a thousand men,
and also twelve thousand men from Tob.
7
On
hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting
men. 8
The
Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to
their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of
Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
9
Joab
saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so
he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them
against the Arameans. 10
He
put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and
deployed them against the Ammonites. 11
Joab
said, "If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to
come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then
I will come to rescue you. 12
Be
strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our
God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight."
13
Then
Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they
fled before him. 14
When
the Ammonites saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before
Abishai and went 13
inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and
came to Jerusalem.
15
After
the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they regrouped.
16
Hadadezer
had Arameans brought from beyond the River A;
they went to Helam, with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer's army
leading them.
17
When
David was told of this, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan
and went to Helam. The Arameans formed their battle lines to meet
David and fought against him.
18
But
they fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their
charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers. B
He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, and he died
there. 19
When
all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been
defeated by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became
subject to them.
So
the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
11
1
In
the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out
with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the
Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2
One
evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of
the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very
beautiful, 3
and
David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't
this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam 14
and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4
Then
David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with
her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then A
she went back home. 5
The
woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."
6
So
David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite."
And Joab sent him to David. 7
When
Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers
were and how the war was going. 8
Then
David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet."
So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after
him. 9
But
Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's
servants and did not go down to his house.
10
When
David was told, "Uriah did not go home," he asked him,
"Haven't you just come from a distance? Why didn't you go home?"
11
Uriah
said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in
tents, and my master Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open
fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my
wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!"
12
Then
David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will
send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the
next. 13
At
David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him
drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among
his master's servants; he did not go home.
14
In
the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15
In
it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting 15is
fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."
16
So
while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he
knew the strongest defenders were. 17
When
the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men
in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.
18
Joab
sent David a full account of the battle. 19
He
instructed the messenger: "When you have finished giving the
king this account of the battle, 20
the
king's anger may flare up, and he may ask you, `Why did you get so
close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows
from the wall? 21
Who
killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth B?
Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that
he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?' If he asks
you this, then say to him, `Also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is
dead.'" 16
22
The
messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab
had sent him to say. 23
The
messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and came out
against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance to the
city gate. 24
Then
the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of
the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is
dead."
25
David
told the messenger, "Say this to Joab: `Don't let this upset
you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack
against the city and destroy it.' Say this to encourage Joab."
26
When
Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27
After
the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house,
and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had
done displeased the LORD. 17
NEW
TESTAMENT:
JOHN 15:1 - 27
15
1
"I
am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every
branch that does bear fruit he prunes A
so that it will be even more fruitful. 3
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless
you remain in me.
5"
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in
him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown
away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire
and burned. 7
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you
wish, and it will be given you. 8
This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing
yourselves to be my disciples.
9"
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my
love. 10
If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have
obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy
may be complete. 12
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends. 14
You are my friends if you do what I command. 15
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his
master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything
that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and
bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you 18
whatever you ask in my name. 17
This is my command: Love each other.
18
"If
the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is,
you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world. That is why the world hates you. 20
Remember the words I spoke to you: `No servant is greater than his
master.' B
If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed
my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21
They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know
the One who sent me. 22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of
sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. 23
He who hates me hates my Father as well. 24
If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be
guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they
have hated both me and my Father. 25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: `They hated me
without reason.' C
26
"When
the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about
me. 27
And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the
beginning.
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John 3:16-21 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, F that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.G 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." H
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