Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JANUARY
24
PSALMS:
24, 54, 84, 114, 144
PROVERBS:
24
OLD
TESTAMENT:
JOSHUA 11:1 - 12:24
NEW
TESTAMENT:
LUKE 17:11 - 37
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:
JOSHUA 11:1 - 12:24
11
1
When
Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of
Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Acshaph, 2
and
to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south
of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth DorA
on the west; 3
to
the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites
below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. 4
They
came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and
chariots--a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 5
All
these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of
Merom, to fight against Israel.
6
The
LORD said to Joshua, "Do
not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all
of them over to Israel, slain. You are to hamstring their horses and
burn their chariots."
7
So
Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of
Merom and attacked them, 8
and
the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and
pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to
the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. 9
Joshua
did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and
burned their chariots.
10
At
that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to
the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) 11
Everyone
in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed B
them, not sparing anything that breathed, and he burned up Hazor
itself. 12
12
Joshua
took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the
sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD
had commanded. 13
Yet
Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds--except
Hazor, which Joshua burned. 14
The
Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock
of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they
completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. 15
As
the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and
Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded
Moses.
16
So
Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the
whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the
mountains of Israel with their foothills, 17
from
Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of
Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck
them down, putting them to death. 18
Joshua
waged war against all these kings for a long time.
19
Except
for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace
with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. 20
For
it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against
Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them
without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
21
At
that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill
country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of
Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally 13
destroyed
them and their towns. 22
No
Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and
Ashdod did any survive. 23
So
Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and
he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal
divisions.
Then
the land had rest from war.
12
1
These
are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose
territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to
Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:
2
Sihon
king of the Amorites,
who
reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon
Gorge--from the middle of the gorge--to the Jabbok River, which is
the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. 3
He
also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Kinnereth A
to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea B),
to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
4
And
the territory of Og king of Bashan,
one
of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. 5
He
ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the
people of Geshur and Maacah, and half of Gilead to the border of
Sihon king of Heshbon.
6
Moses,
the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses
the servant of the LORD gave their land to the 14
Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their
possession.
7
These
are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on
the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon
to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (their lands Joshua gave as
an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal
divisions—8
the
hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes,
the desert and the Negev--the lands of the Hittites, Amorites,
Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites):
9
the
king of Jericho one
the
king of Ai (near Bethel) one
10
the
king of Jerusalem one
the
king of Hebron one
11
the
king of Jarmuth one
the
king of Lachish one
12
the
king of Eglon one
the
king of Gezer one
13
the
king of Debir one
the
king of Geder one
14
the
king of Hormah one
the
king of Arad one
15
the
king of Libnah one
the
king of Adullam one
16
the
king of Makkedah one
the
king of Bethel one 15
17
the
king of Tappuah one
the
king of Hepher one
18
the
king of Aphek one
the
king of Lasharon one
19
the
king of Madon one
the
king of Hazor one
20
the
king of Shimron Meron one
the
king of Acshaph one
21
the
king of Taanach one
the
king of Megiddo one
22
the
king of Kedesh one
the
king of Jokneam in Carmel one
23
the
king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor C)
one
the
king of Goyim in Gilgal one
24
the
king of Tirzah one
thirty-one
kings in all. 16
NEW
TESTAMENT:
LUKE 17:11 - 37
11
Now
on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between
Samaria and Galilee. 12
As
he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy A
met him. They stood at a distance 13
and
called out in a loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
14
When
he saw them, he said, "Go,
show yourselves to the priests."
And as they went, they were cleansed.
15
One
of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud
voice.
16
He
threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan.
17
Jesus
asked, "Were
not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18
Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this
foreigner?"
19
Then
he said to him, "Rise
and go; your faith has made you well."
20
Once,
having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would
come, Jesus replied, "The
kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, 21
nor will people say, `Here it is,' or `There it is,' because the
kingdom of God is within B
you."
22
Then
he said to his disciples, "The
time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son
of Man, but you will not see it. 23
Men will tell you, `There he is!' or `Here he is!' Do not go running
off after them. 24
For the Son of Man in his day C
will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from
one end to the other. 25
But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this
generation.
26
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the
days of the Son of Man.
27
People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up
to the day Noah entered the ark. 17
Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28
"It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and
drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29
But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven
and destroyed them all.
30
"It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is
revealed. 31
On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods
inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field
should go back for anything. 32
Remember Lot's wife!
33
Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his
life will preserve it.
34
I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be
taken and the other left. 35
Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the
other left.
D"
37
"Where,
Lord?" they asked.
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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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