Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
DECEMBER
5
PSALMS:
5
PROVERBS:
5, 35, 65, 95, 125
OLD
TESTAMENT:
LEVITICUS 15:1 - 16:28
NEW
TESTAMENT:
MARK 7:1 - 23
PSALMS:
5
For
the director of music. For flutes. A psalm of David.
1
Give
ear to my words, O LORD,
consider
my sighing.
2
Listen
to my cry for help,
my
King and my God,
for
to you I pray.
3
In
the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice;
in
the morning I lay my requests before you
and
wait in expectation.
4
You
are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;
with
you the wicked cannot dwell.
5
The
arrogant cannot stand in your presence;
you
hate all who do wrong.
6
You
destroy those who tell lies;
bloodthirsty
and deceitful men
the
LORD abhors.
7
But
I, by your great mercy,
will
come into your house;
in
reverence will I bow down
toward
your holy temple.
8
Lead
me, O LORD, in your righteousness
because
of my enemies--
make
straight your way before me. 1
9
Not
a word from their mouth can be trusted;
their
heart is filled with destruction.
Their
throat is an open grave;
with
their tongue they speak deceit.
10
Declare
them guilty, O God!
Let
their intrigues be their downfall.
Banish
them for their many sins,
for
they have rebelled against you.
11
But
let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let
them ever sing for joy.
Spread
your protection over them,
that
those who love your name may rejoice in you.
12
For
surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous;
you
surround them with your favor as with a shield. 2
PSALMS:
35
Of
David.
1
Contend,
O LORD, with those who contend with me;
fight
against those who fight against me.
2
Take
up shield and buckler;
arise
and come to my aid.
3
Brandish
spear and javelin A
against
those who pursue me.
Say
to my soul,
"I
am your salvation."
4
May
those who seek my life
be
disgraced and put to shame;
may
those who plot my ruin
be
turned back in dismay.
5
May
they be like chaff before the wind,
with
the angel of the LORD driving them away;
6
may
their path be dark and slippery,
with
the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
7
Since
they hid their net for me without cause
and
without cause dug a pit for me,
8
may
ruin overtake them by surprise--
may
the net they hid entangle them,
may
they fall into the pit, to their ruin.
9
Then
my soul will rejoice in the LORD
and
delight in his salvation.
10
My
whole being will exclaim,
"Who
is like you, O LORD?
You
rescue the poor from those too strong for them,
the
poor and needy from those who rob them." 3
11
Ruthless
witnesses come forward;
they
question me on things I know nothing about.
12
They
repay me evil for good
and
leave my soul forlorn.
13
Yet
when they were ill, I put on sackcloth
and
humbled myself with fasting.
When
my prayers returned to me unanswered,
14
I
went about mourning
as
though for my friend or brother.
I
bowed my head in grief
as
though weeping for my mother.
15
But
when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
attackers
gathered against me when I was unaware.
They
slandered me without ceasing.
16
Like
the ungodly they maliciously mocked B;
they
gnashed their teeth at me.
17
O
Lord, how long will you look on?
Rescue
my life from their ravages,
my
precious life from these lions.
18
I
will give you thanks in the great assembly;
among
throngs of people I will praise you.
19
Let
not those gloat over me
who
are my enemies without cause;
let
not those who hate me without reason
maliciously
wink the eye.
20
They
do not speak peaceably,
but
devise false accusations
against
those who live quietly in the land.
21
They
gape at me and say, "Aha! Aha!
With
our own eyes we have seen it." 4
22
O
LORD, you have seen this; be not silent.
Do
not be far from me, O Lord.
23
Awake,
and rise to my defense!
Contend
for me, my God and Lord.
24
Vindicate
me in your righteousness, O LORD my God;
do
not let them gloat over me.
25
Do
not let them think, "Aha, just what we wanted!"
or
say, "We have swallowed him up."
26
May
all who gloat over my distress
be
put to shame and confusion;
may
all who exalt themselves over me
be
clothed with shame and disgrace.
27
May
those who delight in my vindication
shout
for joy and gladness;
may
they always say, "The LORD be exalted,
who
delights in the well-being of his servant."
28
My
tongue will speak of your righteousness
and
of your praises all day long. 5
PSALMS:
65
For
the director of music. A psalm of David. A song.
1
Praise
awaits A
you, O God, in Zion;
to
you our vows will be fulfilled.
2
O
you who hear prayer,
to
you all men will come.
3
When
we were overwhelmed by sins,
you
forgave B
our transgressions.
4
Blessed
are those you choose
and
bring near to live in your courts!
We
are filled with the good things of your house,
of
your holy temple.
5
You
answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,
O
God our Savior,
the
hope of all the ends of the earth
and
of the farthest seas,
6
who
formed the mountains by your power,
having
armed yourself with strength,
7
who
stilled the roaring of the seas,
the
roaring of their waves,
and
the turmoil of the nations.
8
Those
living far away fear your wonders;
where
morning dawns and evening fades
you
call forth songs of joy.
9
You
care for the land and water it;
you
enrich it abundantly.
The
streams of God are filled with water
to
provide the people with grain, 6
for
so you have ordained it. C
10
You
drench its furrows
and
level its ridges;
you
soften it with showers
and
bless its crops.
11
You
crown the year with your bounty,
and
your carts overflow with abundance.
12
The
grasslands of the desert overflow;
the
hills are clothed with gladness.
13
The
meadows are covered with flocks
and
the valleys are mantled with grain;
they
shout for joy and sing. 7
PSALMS:
95
1
Come,
let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let
us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2
Let
us come before him with thanksgiving
and
extol him with music and song.
3
For
the LORD is the great God,
the
great King above all gods.
4
In
his hand are the depths of the earth,
and
the mountain peaks belong to him.
5
The
sea is his, for he made it,
and
his hands formed the dry land.
6
Come,
let us bow down in worship,
let
us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7
for
he is our God
and
we are the people of his pasture,
the
flock under his care.
Today,
if you hear his voice,
8
do
not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, A
as
you did that day at Massah B
in the desert,
9
where
your fathers tested and tried me,
though
they had seen what I did.
10
For
forty years I was angry with that generation;
I
said, "They
are a people whose hearts go astray,
and
they have not known my ways."
11
So
I declared on oath in my anger,
PSALMS:
125
A
song of ascents.
1
Those
who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which
cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2
As
the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so
the LORD surrounds his people
both
now and forevermore.
3
The
scepter of the wicked will not remain
over
the land allotted to the righteous,
for
then the righteous might use
their
hands to do evil.
4
Do
good, O LORD, to those who are good,
to
those who are upright in heart.
5
But
those who turn to crooked ways
the
LORD will banish with the evildoers.
Peace
be upon Israel. 9
PROVERBS:
5
5
1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom,
listen
well to my words of insight,
2
that
you may maintain discretion
and
your lips may preserve knowledge.
3
For
the lips of an adulteress drip honey,
and
her speech is smoother than oil;
4
but
in the end she is bitter as gall,
sharp
as a double-edged sword.
5
Her
feet go down to death;
her
steps lead straight to the grave. A
6
She
gives no thought to the way of life;
her
paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
7
Now
then, my sons, listen to me;
do
not turn aside from what I say.
8
Keep
to a path far from her,
do
not go near the door of her house,
9
lest
you give your best strength to others
and
your years to one who is cruel,
10
lest
strangers feast on your wealth
and
your toil enrich another man's house.
11
At
the end of your life you will groan,
when
your flesh and body are spent.
12
You
will say, "How I hated discipline!
How
my heart spurned correction!
13
I
would not obey my teachers
or
listen to my instructors.
14
I
have come to the brink of utter ruin
in
the midst of the whole assembly."
15
Drink
water from your own cistern,
running
water from your own well.
16
Should
your springs overflow in the streets,
your
streams of water in the public squares?
never
to be shared with strangers.
18
May
your fountain be blessed,
and
may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19
A
loving doe, a graceful deer--
may
her breasts satisfy you always,
may
you ever be captivated by her love.
20
Why
be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why
embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
21
For
a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,
and
he examines all his paths.
22
The
evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him;
the
cords of his sin hold him fast.
23
He
will die for lack of discipline,
led
astray by his own great folly. 11
OLD
TESTAMENT: LEVITICUS 15:1 - 16:28
15
1
The
LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 2"Speak
to the Israelites and say to them:
`When
any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
3
Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will
make him unclean.
This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:
4"
`Any
bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he
sits on will be unclean.
5
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with
water, and he will be unclean till evening.
6
Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must
wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till
evening.
7"
`Whoever
touches the man who has a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe
with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
8"
`If
the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person
must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean
till evening.
9"
`Everything
the man sits on when riding will be unclean,
10
and whoever touches any of the things that were under him will be
unclean till evening;
whoever picks up those things must wash his clothes and bathe with
water, and he will be unclean till evening.
11"
`Anyone
the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water
must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean
till evening.
12"
`A
clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden article
is to be rinsed with water.
13"
`When
a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days
for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe
himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.
14
On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and
come before the LORD to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and give
them to the priest.
15
The
priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering and the other
for a burnt offering.
In this way he will make atonement before the LORD for the man
because of his discharge.
16"
`When
a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with
water, and he will be unclean till evening.
17
Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with
water, and it will be unclean till evening.
18
When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both
must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
19"
`When
a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly
period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be
unclean till evening.
20"
`Anything
she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits
on will be unclean.
21
Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water,
and he will be unclean till evening.
22
Whoever
touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with
water, and he will be unclean till evening.
23
Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone
touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
12
24"
`If
a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be
unclean for seven days;
any bed he lies on will be unclean.
25"
`When
a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than
her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her
period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as
in the days of her period.
26
Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as
is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will
be unclean, as during her period.
27
Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and
bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
28"
`When
she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days,
and after that she will be ceremonially clean. 29
On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and
bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
30
The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a
burnt offering.
In
this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the
uncleanness of her discharge.
31"
`You
must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean,
so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling
place,
A
which is among them.'
"
32
These
are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made
unclean by an emission of semen, 33
for
a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge,
and for a man who lies with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.
16
1
The
LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died
when they approached the LORD. 2
The
LORD said to Moses: "Tell
your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy
Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark,
or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement
cover.
3
"This
is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area:
with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
4
He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next
to his body;
he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban.
These are sacred garments;
so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. 5
From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin
offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
6
"Aaron
is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for
himself and his household.
7
Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 8
He is to cast lots for the two goats--one lot for the LORD and the
other for the scapegoat.
A
9
Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice
it for a sin offering.
10
But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive
before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into
the desert as a scapegoat.
11
"Aaron
shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for
himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his 13
own
sin offering. 12
He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before
the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take
them behind the curtain. 13
He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke
of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony,
so that he will not die.
14
He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle
it on the front of the atonement cover;
then
he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the
atonement cover.
15
"He
shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and
take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the
bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in
front of it.
16
In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of
the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins
have been.
He
is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is among them in the
midst of their uncleanness.
17
No one is to be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to
make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made
atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of
Israel.
18
"Then
he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make
atonement for it.
He
shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and
put it on all the horns of the altar. 19
He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times
to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the
Israelites.
20
"When
Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent
of Meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.
21
He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over
it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites--all their
sins--and put them on the goat's head.
He shall send the goat away into the desert in the care of a man
appointed for the task.
22
The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place;
and the man shall release it in the desert.
23
"Then
Aaron is to go into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen
garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is
to leave them there.
24
He shall bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his
regular garments.
Then
he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and
the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and
for the people.
25
He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
26
"The
man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and
bathe himself with water;
afterward he may come into the camp.
27The
bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into
the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the
camp; their hides, flesh and offal are to be burned up.
28
The
an
who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water;
afterward he may come into the camp.
14
NEW
TESTAMENT: MARK 7:1 - 23
7
1
The
Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from
Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and 2
saw
some of his disciples eating food with hands that were "unclean,"
that is, unwashed.
3
(The
Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a
ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. 4
When
they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And
they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups,
pitchers and kettles. A)
5
So
the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't
your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead
of eating their food with `unclean' hands?"
6
He
replied, "Isaiah
was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites;
as
it is written:
"
`These
people honor me with their lips,
but
their hearts are far from me.
7
They worship me in vain;
their
teachings are but rules taught by men.'
B
8
You
have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the
traditions of men."
9
And
he said to them: "You
have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to
observe C
your
own traditions!
10
For Moses said,
`Honor
your father and your mother,'
D
and,
`Anyone
who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
E
11
But you say that if a man says to his father or mother:
`Whatever
help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban' (that is, a
gift devoted to God),
12
then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
13
Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have
handed down. And you do many things like that."
14
Again
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen
to me, everyone, and understand this.
15
Nothing outside a man can make him `unclean' by going into him.
Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him `unclean.'F"
17
After
he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him
about this parable. 18"Are
you so dull?"
he asked. "Don't
you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him
`unclean'?
19
For
it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of
his body."
(In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")
20
He
went on: "What
comes out of a man is what makes him `unclean.'
21
For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual
immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
22
greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
23
All these evils come from inside and make a man `unclean.'
"
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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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