Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER 1
PSALMS: 1, 31, 61, 91, 121
PROVERBS: 1
OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 42:18 -
43:34
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 13:47 -
14:12
PSALMS: 1
1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish. [1]
PSALMS: 31
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.
3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
4 Free me from the trap that is set for me,
for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.
6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols;
I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your love,
for you saw my affliction
and knew the anguish of my soul.
8 You have not handed me over to the enemy
but have set my feet in a spacious place.
9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eyes grow weak with sorrow,
my soul and my body with grief.
10 My life is consumed by anguish
and my years by groaning;
my strength fails because of my affliction, A
and my bones grow weak. [2]
11 Because of all my enemies,
I am the utter contempt of my neighbors;
I am a dread to my friends--
those who see me on the street flee from me.
12 I am forgotten by them as though I were dead;
I have become like broken pottery.
13 For I hear the slander of many;
there is terror on every side;
they conspire against me
and plot to take my life.
14 But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, "You are my God."
15 My times are in your hands;
deliver me from my enemies
and from those who pursue me.
16 Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love.
17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD,
for I have cried out to you;
but let the wicked be put to shame
and lie silent in the grave. B
18 Let their lying lips be silenced,
for with pride and contempt
they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
19 How great is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you,
which you bestow in the sight of men
on those who take refuge in you.
20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them
from the intrigues of men;
in your dwelling you keep them safe [3]
from accusing tongues.
21 Praise be to the LORD,
for he showed his wonderful love to me
when I was in a besieged city.
22 In my alarm I said,
"I am cut off from your sight!"
Yet you heard my cry for mercy
when I called to you for help.
23 Love the LORD, all his saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful,
but the proud he pays back in full.
24 Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the LORD. [4]
PSALMS: 61
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David.
1 Hear my cry, O God;
listen to my prayer.
2 From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For you have been my refuge,
a strong tower against the foe.
4 I long to dwell in your tent forever
and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.
Selah
5 For you have heard my vows, O God;
you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
6 Increase the days of the king's life,
his years for many generations.
7 May he be enthroned in God's presence forever;
appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him.
8 Then will I ever sing praise to your name
and fulfill my vows day after day. [5]
PSALMS: 91
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. A
2 I will say B of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my
fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."
3 Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you make the Most High your dwelling--
even the LORD, who is my refuge--
10 then no harm will befall you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent. [6]
14 "Because he loves me,"
says the LORD, "I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him
and show him my salvation." [7]
PSALMS: 121
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills--
where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip--
he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD watches over you--
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will keep you from all harm--
he will watch over your life;
8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore. [8]
PROVERBS: 1
1 1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
2 for attaining wisdom and discipline;
for understanding words of insight;
3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life,
doing what is right and just and fair;
4 for giving prudence to the simple,
knowledge and discretion to the young--
5 let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance--
6 for understanding proverbs and parables,
the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but foolsA despise wisdom and discipline.
8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction
and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
9 They will be a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you,
do not give in to them.
11 If they say, "Come along with us;
let's lie in wait for someone's blood,
let's waylay some harmless soul;
12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave, B [9]
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder;
14 throw in your lot with us,
and we will share a common purse"--
15 my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their paths;
16 for their feet rush into sin,
they are swift to shed blood.
17 How useless to spread a net
in full view of all the birds!
18 These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they waylay only themselves!
19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
it takes away the lives of those who get it.
20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
she raises her voice in the public squares;
21 at the head of the noisy streets C she cries
out,
in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
22 "How long will you simple ones D love your
simple ways?
How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?
23 If you had responded to my rebuke,
I would have poured out my heart to you
and made my thoughts known to you.
24 But since you rejected me when I called
and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
2 5since you ignored all my advice
and would not accept my rebuke,
26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; [10]
I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
28 "Then they will call to me
but I will not answer;
they will look for me but will not find me.
29 Since they hated knowledge
and did not choose to fear the LORD,
30 since they would not accept my advice
and spurned my rebuke,
31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm." [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS 42:18 -
43:34
18 On the third day, Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live,
for I fear God: 19 If you are honest men, let one of your
brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for
your starving households. 20 But you must bring your
youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not
die." This they proceeded to do.
21 They said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of
our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life,
but we would not listen; that's why this distress has come upon us."
22 Reuben replied, "Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But
you wouldn't listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood." 23 They did not realize that Joseph could understand them,
since he was using an interpreter.
24 He turned away from them and began to weep, but then turned back and
spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
25 Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man's
silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After
this was done for them, 26 they loaded their grain on
their donkeys and left.
27 At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his
sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.
28 "My silver has been returned," he said to his brothers.
"Here it is in my sack."
Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said,
"What is this that God has done to us?"
29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told
him all that had happened to them. They said, 30 "The man
who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were
spying on the land. 31But we said to him, `We are honest
men; we are not spies. 32 We were twelve brothers, sons of
one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.'
33 "Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, `This is how I
will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me,
and take food for your starving households and go. 34 But
bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but
honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade A in the land.' "
35 As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his
pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were
frightened. 36 Their father Jacob said to them, "You have
deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you
want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!"
37 Then Reuben said to his father, "You may put both of my sons to death
if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him
back." [12]
38 But Jacob said, "My son will not go down there with you; his brother
is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are
taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave B in
sorrow."
431Now the famine was still severe in the land. 2
So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their
father said to them, "Go back and buy us a little more food."
3 But Judah said to him, "The man warned us solemnly, `You will not see
my face again unless your brother is with you.' 4 If you
will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you. 5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because
the man said to us, `You will not see my face again unless your brother is with
you.' "
6 Israel asked, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the
man you had another brother?"
7 They replied, "The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our
family. `Is your father still living?' he asked us. `Do you have another
brother?' We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say,
`Bring your brother down here'?"
8 Then Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy along with me and
we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.
9 I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me
personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him
here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life. 10 As it is, if we had not delayed, we could have gone and
returned twice."
11 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this:
Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the
man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some
pistachio nuts and almonds. 12 Take double the amount of
silver with you, for you must return the silver that was put back into the
mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake. 13 Take
your brother also and go back to the man at once. 14 And
may God Almighty A grant you mercy before the man so that
he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I
am bereaved, I am bereaved."
15 So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and
Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.
16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the
steward of his house, "Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and
prepare dinner; they are to eat with me at noon."
17 The man did as Joseph told him and took the men to Joseph's house.
18 Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his
house. [13] They thought, "We were brought
here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He
wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our
donkeys."
19 So they went up to Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance
to the house. 20 "Please, sir," they said, "we came down
here the first time to buy food. 21 But at the place where
we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his
silver--the exact weight--in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back
with us.
22 We have also brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don't
know who put our silver in our sacks."
23 "It's all right," he said. "Don't be afraid. Your God, the God of
your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I received your silver." Then
he brought Simeon out to them.
24 The steward took the men into Joseph's house, gave them water to wash
their feet and provided fodder for their donkeys. [14]
25
They prepared their gifts for Joseph's arrival at noon, because they
had heard that they were to eat there.
26
When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had
brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground. 27 He asked them how they were, and then he said, "How is your
aged father you told me about? Is he still living?"
28
They replied, "Your servant our father is still alive and well." And
they bowed low to pay him honor.
29
As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's
son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" And
he said, "God be gracious to you, my son." 30 Deeply moved
at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep.
He went into his private room and wept there.
31
After he had washed his face, he came out and, controlling himself,
said, "Serve the food."
32
They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves, and the
Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with
Hebrews, for that is detestable to Egyptians. 33 The men
had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the
youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment. 34
When portions were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion
was five times as much as anyone else's. So they feasted and drank freely with
him. [15]
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 13:47 -
14:12
47 "Once again, the kingdom of
heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of
fish. 48 When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they
sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.
49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come
and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and
throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
51"Have you understood all these
things?" Jesus asked.
"Yes," they replied.
52 He said to them, "Therefore
every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is
like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well
as old."
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. 54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in
their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and
these miraculous powers?" they asked.
55 "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and
aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56
Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these
things?" 57 And they took offense at him.
But Jesus said to them, "Only in
his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."
58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of
faith.
14 1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, 2 and he said to his attendants, "This is John the Baptist; he
has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him."
3 Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison
because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, 4 for John
had been saying to him: "It is not lawful for you to have her." 5 Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people,
because they considered him a prophet.
6 On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for them and
pleased Herod so much 7 that he promised with an oath to
give her whatever she asked. 8 Prompted by her mother, she
said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist." 9 The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his
dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted 10
and had John beheaded in the prison. 11 His head was
brought [16]in on a platter and given to the
girl, who carried it to her mother. 12 John's disciples
came and took his body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus. [17]
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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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