Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER
23
PSALMS:
23, 53, 83, 113, 143
PROVERBS:
23
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EXODUS 34:1 - 35:9
NEW
TESTAMENT:
MATTHEW 27:15 - 51
PSALMS:
24
Of
David. A psalm.
1
The
earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,
the
world, and all who live in it;
2
for
he founded it upon the seas
and
established it upon the waters.
3
Who
may ascend the hill of the LORD?
Who
may stand in his holy place?
4
He
who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who
does not lift up his soul to an idol
or
swear by what is false. A
5
He
will receive blessing from the LORD
and
vindication from God his Savior.
6
Such
is the generation of those who seek him,
who
seek your face, O God of Jacob. B
Selah
7
Lift
up your heads, O you gates;
be
lifted up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
8
Who
is this King of glory?
The
LORD strong and mighty,
the
LORD mighty in battle.
9
Lift
up your heads, O you gates;
lift
them up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
10
Who
is he, this King of glory?
The
LORD Almighty--
he
is the King of glory. 1
Selah
2
PSALMS:
54
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil
A
of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not
David hiding among us?"
1
Save
me, O God, by your name;
vindicate
me by your might.
2
Hear
my prayer, O God;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
3
Strangers
are attacking me;
ruthless
men seek my life--
men
without regard for God.
Selah
4
Surely
God is my help;
the
Lord is the one who sustains me.
5
Let
evil recoil on those who slander me;
in
your faithfulness destroy them.
6
I
will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I
will praise your name, O LORD,
for
it is good.
7
For
he has delivered me from all my troubles,
and
my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. 3
PSALMS:
84
For
the director of music. According to gittith.
A
Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.
1
How
lovely is your dwelling place,
O
LORD Almighty!
2
My
soul yearns, even faints,
for
the courts of the LORD;
my
heart and my flesh cry out
for
the living God.
3
Even
the sparrow has found a home,
and
the swallow a nest for herself,
where
she may have her young--
a
place near your altar,
O
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4
Blessed
are those who dwell in your house;
they
are ever praising you.
Selah
5
Blessed
are those whose strength is in you,
who
have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6
As
they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they
make it a place of springs;
the
autumn rains also cover it with pools. B
7
They
go from strength to strength,
till
each appears before God in Zion.
8
Hear
my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen
to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah
9
Look
upon our shield, C
O God;
look
with favor on your anointed one. 4
10
Better
is one day in your courts
than
a thousand elsewhere;
I
would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than
dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11
For
the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the
LORD bestows favor and honor;
no
good thing does he withhold
from
those whose walk is blameless.
12
O
LORD Almighty,
blessed
is the man who trusts in you. 5
PSALMS:
114
1
When
Israel came out of Egypt,
the
house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2
Judah
became God's sanctuary,
Israel
his dominion.
3
The
sea looked and fled,
the
Jordan turned back;
4
the
mountains skipped like rams,
the
hills like lambs.
5
Why
was it, O sea, that you fled,
O
Jordan, that you turned back,
6
you
mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you
hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble,
O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at
the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who
turned the rock into a pool,
the
hard rock into springs of water. 6
PSALMS:
144
Of
David.
1
Praise
be to the LORD my Rock,
who
trains my hands for war,
my
fingers for battle.
2
He
is my loving God and my fortress,
my
stronghold and my deliverer,
my
shield, in whom I take refuge,
who
subdues peoples A
under me.
3
O
LORD, what is man that you care for him,
the
son of man that you think of him?
4
Man
is like a breath;
his
days are like a fleeting shadow.
5
Part
your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch
the mountains, so that they smoke.
6
Send
forth lightning and scatter the enemies;
shoot
your arrows and rout them.
7
Reach
down your hand from on high;
deliver
me and rescue me
from
the mighty waters,
from
the hands of foreigners
8
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
9
I
will sing a new song to you, O God;
on
the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10
to
the One who gives victory to kings,
who
delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. 7
11
Deliver
me and rescue me
from
the hands of foreigners
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
12
Then
our sons in their youth
will
be like well-nurtured plants,
and
our daughters will be like pillars
carved
to adorn a palace.
13
Our
barns will be filled
with
every kind of provision.
Our
sheep will increase by thousands,
by
tens of thousands in our fields;
14
our
oxen will draw heavy loads. B
There
will be no breaching of walls,
no
going into captivity,
no
cry of distress in our streets.
15
Blessed
are the people of whom this is true;
blessed
are the people whose God is the LORD. 8
PROVERBS:
24
24
1
Do not envy wicked men,
do
not desire their company;
2
for
their hearts plot violence,
and
their lips talk about making trouble.
3
By
wisdom a house is built,
and
through understanding it is established;
4
through
knowledge its rooms are filled
with
rare and beautiful treasures.
5
A
wise man has great power,
and
a man of knowledge increases strength;
6
for
waging war you need guidance,
and
for victory many advisers.
7
Wisdom
is too high for a fool;
in
the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.
8
He
who plots evil
will
be known as a schemer.
9
The
schemes of folly are sin,
and
men detest a mocker.
10
If
you falter in times of trouble,
how
small is your strength!
11
Rescue
those being led away to death;
hold
back those staggering toward slaughter.
12
If
you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"
does
not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does
not he who guards your life know it?
Will
he not repay each person according to what he has done? 9
13
Eat
honey, my son, for it is good;
honey
from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14
Know
also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;
if
you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
15
Do
not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's house,
do
not raid his dwelling place;
16
for
though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,
but
the wicked are brought down by calamity.
17
Do
not gloat when your enemy falls;
when
he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
18
or
the LORD will see and disapprove
and
turn his wrath away from him.
19
Do
not fret because of evil men
or
be envious of the wicked,
20
for
the evil man has no future hope,
and
the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21
Fear
the LORD and the king, my son,
and
do not join with the rebellious,
22
for
those two will send sudden destruction upon them,
and
who knows what calamities they can bring?
23
These
also are sayings of the wise:
To
show partiality in judging is not good:
24
Whoever
says to the guilty, "You are innocent"--
peoples
will curse him and nations denounce him.
25
But
it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and
rich blessing will come upon them. 10
26
An
honest answer
is
like a kiss on the lips.
27
Finish
your outdoor work
and
get your fields ready;
after
that, build your house.
28
Do
not testify against your neighbor without cause,
or
use your lips to deceive.
29
Do
not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;
I'll
pay that man back for what he did."
30
I
went past the field of the sluggard,
past
the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31
thorns
had come up everywhere,
the
ground was covered with weeds,
and
the stone wall was in ruins.
32
I
applied my heart to what I observed
and
learned a lesson from what I saw:
33
A
little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
34
and
poverty will come on you like a bandit
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EXODUS 34:1 - 35:9
34
1
The
LORD said to Moses, "Chisel
out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them
the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
2
Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present
yourself to me there on top of the mountain.
3
No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not
even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."
4
So
Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up
Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and
he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5
Then
the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and
proclaimed his name, the LORD. 6
And
he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The
LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger,
abounding in love and faithfulness,
7
maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion
and sin.
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children
and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth
generation."
8
Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.
9
"O
Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes,"
he said, "then
let the Lord go with us.
Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and
our sin, and take us as your inheritance."
10
Then
the LORD said: "I
am making a covenant with you.
Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any
nation in all the world.
The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I,
the LORD, will do for you.
11
Obey what I command you today.
I
will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
12
Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where
you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
13
Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their
Asherah poles.
A
14
Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is
a jealous God.
15
"Be
careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for
when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them,
they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
16
And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons
and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will
lead your sons to do the same.
17
"Do
not make cast idols.
18
"Celebrate
the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without
yeast, as I commanded you.
Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month
you came out of Egypt.
19
"The
first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the
firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
20
Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it,
break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
"No
one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21
"Six
days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even
during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
12
22
"Celebrate
the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the
Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
B
23
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign
LORD, the God of Israel.
24
I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and
no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to
appear before the LORD your God.
25
"Do
not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything
containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the
Passover Feast remain until morning.
26
"Bring
the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD
your God.
"Do
not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
27
Then
the LORD said to Moses, "Write
down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a
covenant with you and with Israel."
28
Moses
was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating
bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the
covenant--the Ten Commandments.
29
When
Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the
Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant
because he had spoken with the LORD.
30
When
Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and
they were afraid to come near him. 31
But
Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community
came back to him, and he spoke to them. 32
Afterward
all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands
the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
33
When
Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. 34
But
whenever he entered the LORD's presence to speak with him, he removed
the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the
Israelites what he had been commanded,
35
they
saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back
over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.
35
1
Moses
assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, "These
are the things the LORD has commanded you to do: 2
For
six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy
day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must
be put to death. 3
Do
not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
4
Moses
said to the whole Israelite community, "This
is what the LORD has commanded:
5
From
what you have, take an offering for the LORD.
Everyone
who is willing is to bring to the LORD an offering of gold, silver
and bronze;
6
blue,
purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair;
7
ram
skins dyed red and hides of sea cows
A;
acacia
wood;
8
olive
oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant
incense;
9
and
13
onyx
stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
14
NEW
TESTAMENT:
MATTHEW 27:15 - 51
15
Now
it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner
chosen by the crowd. 16
At
that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. 17
So
when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do
you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called
Christ?" 18
For
he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19
While
Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this
message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for
I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
20
But
the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for
Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21
"Which
of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the
governor.
"Barabbas,"
they answered.
22
"What
shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate
asked.
They
all answered, "Crucify him!"
23
"Why?
What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But
they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
24
When
Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar
was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the
crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It
is your responsibility!"
25
All
the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our
children!"
26
Then
he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed
him over to be crucified.
27
Then
the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered
the whole company of soldiers around him. 28
They
stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,
29and
then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They
put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked
him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said.
30
They
spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and
again.
31
After
they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes
on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
32
As
they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and
they forced him to carry the cross. 33
They
came to a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull).
34
There
they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting
it, he refused to drink 15
it. 35
When
they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
B
36
And
sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37
Above
his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS,
THE KING OF THE JEWS. 38
Two
robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his
left. 39
Those
who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40
and
saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in
three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the
Son of God!"
41
In
the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the
elders mocked him.
42
"He
saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's
the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will
believe in him. 43
He
trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said,
`I
am the Son of God.'"
44
In
the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped
insults on him.
45
From
the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
46
About
the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi,
Eloi,
C
lama
sabachthani?"--which
means, "My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
D
47
When
some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's
calling Elijah."
48
Immediately
one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put
it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49
The
rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to
save him."
50
And
when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his
spirit.
51
At
that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to
bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 16
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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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