Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER 10
PSALMS: 10, 40, 70, 100, 130
PROVERBS: 10
OLD TESTAMENT: EXODUS 10:1 -
12:13
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 20:1 -
28
PSALMS: 10
1 Why, A O LORD, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts of the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4 In his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
he is haughty and your laws are far from him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will shake me;
I'll always be happy and never have trouble."
7 His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
8 He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent,
watching in secret for his victims.
9 He lies in wait like a lion in cover;
he lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10 His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, "God has forgotten;
he covers his face and never sees." [1]
12 Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why does he say to himself,
"He won't call me to account"?
14 But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you consider it to take it in hand.
The victim commits himself to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil man;
call him to account for his wickedness
that would not be found out.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more. [2]
PSALMS: 40
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man
who makes the LORD his trust,
who does not look to the proud,
to those who turn aside to false gods. A
5 Many, O LORD my God,
are the wonders you have done.
The things you planned for us
no one can recount to you;
were I to speak and tell of them,
they would be too many to declare.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but my ears you have pierced BC;
burnt offerings and sin offerings
you did not require.
7 Then I said, "Here I am, I have come--
it is written about me in the scroll. D [3]
8 I desire to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart."
9 I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly;
I do not seal my lips,
as you know, O LORD.
10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
I speak of your faithfulness and salvation.
I do not conceal your love and your truth
from the great assembly.
11 Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD;
may your love and your truth always protect me.
12 For troubles without number surround me;
my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my heart fails within me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to save me;
O LORD, come quickly to help me.
14 May all who seek to take my life
be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
15 May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
be appalled at their own shame.
16 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation always say,
"The LORD be exalted!" [4]
17 Yet I am poor and needy;
may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
O my God, do not delay. [5]
PSALMS: 70
For the director of music. Of David. A petition.
1 Hasten, O God, to save me;
O LORD, come quickly to help me.
2 May those who seek my life
be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
3 May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
turn back because of their shame.
4 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation always say,
"Let God be exalted!"
5 Yet I am poor and needy;
come quickly to me, O God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
O LORD, do not delay. [6]
PSALMS: 100
A psalm. For giving thanks.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his A;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations. [7]
PSALMS: 130
A song of ascents.
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
2 O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
6 My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins. [8]
PROVERBS: 10
10 1 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son grief to his mother.
2 Ill-gotten treasures are of no value,
but righteousness delivers from death.
3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry
but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
4 Lazy hands make a man poor,
but diligent hands bring wealth.
5 He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,
but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
6 Blessings crown the head of the righteous,
but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. A
7 The memory of the righteous will be a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
8 The wise in heart accept commands,
but a chattering fool comes to ruin.
9 The man of integrity walks securely,
but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.
10 He who winks maliciously causes grief,
and a chattering fool comes to ruin.
11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked. [9]
12 Hatred stirs up dissension,
but love covers over all wrongs.
13 Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning,
but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.
14 Wise men store up knowledge,
but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.
15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,
but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
16 The wages of the righteous bring them life,
but the income of the wicked brings them punishment.
17 He who heeds discipline shows the way to life,
but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
18 He who conceals his hatred has lying lips,
and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
19 When words are many, sin is not absent,
but he who holds his tongue is wise.
20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver,
but the heart of the wicked is of little value.
21 The lips of the righteous nourish many,
but fools die for lack of judgment.
22 The blessing of the LORD brings wealth,
and he adds no trouble to it. [10]
23 A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct,
but a man of understanding delights in wisdom.
24 What the wicked dreads will overtake him;
what the righteous desire will be granted.
25 When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone,
but the righteous stand firm forever.
26 As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so is a sluggard to those who send him.
27 The fear of the LORD adds length to life,
but the years of the wicked are cut short.
28 The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
29 The way of the LORD is a refuge for the righteous,
but it is the ruin of those who do evil.
30 The righteous will never be uprooted,
but the wicked will not remain in the land.
31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,
but a perverse tongue will be cut out.
32 The lips of the righteous know what is fitting,
but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse. [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: EXODUS 10:1 -
12:13
10 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go
to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so
that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them
2 that you may tell your
children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I
performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the LORD."
3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, "This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews,
says: `How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go,
so that they may worship me. 4 If you refuse to let them go, I will bring
locusts into your country tomorrow. 5 They will cover the face of the ground so that
it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail,
including every tree that is growing in your fields. 6They will fill your
houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians--something neither
your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in
this land till now.' " Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.
7 Pharaoh's officials said to him, "How long will this man be a snare
to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you
not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?"
8 Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. "Go, worship the
LORD your God," he said. "But just who will be going?"
9 Moses answered, "We will go with our young and old, with our sons and
daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival
to the LORD."
10Pharaoh said, "The LORD be with you--if I let you go, along with your
women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil. A 11No! Have only the men go; and worship the LORD, since that's
what you have been asking for." Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of
Pharaoh's presence.
12 And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts will swarm over the
land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the
hail."
13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an
east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the
wind had brought the locusts; 14 they invaded all Egypt
and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had
there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again. 15 They covered all the ground until it was black. They
devoured all that was left after the hail--everything growing in the fields and
the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land
of Egypt.
16 Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned
against the LORD your God and against you. 17 Now forgive
my sin once more and pray to the LORD your God to take this deadly plague away
from me."
18 Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD. 19
And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up
the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea. B Not a
locust was left anywhere in Egypt. 20 But the LORD
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go. [12]
21Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread
over Egypt--darkness that can be felt." 22So Moses
stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for
three days. 23No one could see anyone else or leave his
place for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they
lived.
24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go, worship the LORD. Even
your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds
behind."
25 But Moses said, "You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt
offerings to present to the LORD our God. 26 Our livestock
too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of
them in worshiping the LORD our God, and until we get there we will not know
what we are to use to worship the LORD."
27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to let
them go.
28 Pharaoh said to Moses, "Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not
appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die."
29 "Just as you say," Moses replied, "I will never appear before you
again."
11 1 Now the LORD had said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he
will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.
2 Tell the
people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of
silver and gold." 3 (The LORD made the Egyptians
favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in
Egypt by Pharaoh's officials and by the people.)
4 So Moses said, "This is what the
LORD says: `About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in
Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to
the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the
firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There will be loud wailing throughout
Egypt--worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. 7 But among the Israelites
not a dog will bark at any man or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD
makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
8 All these officials of
yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, `Go, you and all the
people who follow you!' After that I will leave." Then Moses, hot with
anger, left Pharaoh.
9 The LORD had said to Moses, "Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you--so that my wonders may be
multiplied in Egypt." 10 Moses and Aaron performed
all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he
would not let the Israelites go out of his country. [13]
12 1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2
"This month is to be for you the
first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the
tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb A for his family, one for
each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one
with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people
there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with
what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must
be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the
goats. 6 Take
care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the
community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and
tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire,
along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the
fire--head, legs and inner parts. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning,
you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your
belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it
is the LORD's Passover.
12 "On that same night I will pass
through Egypt and strike down every firstborn--both men and animals--and I will
bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you
when I strike Egypt. [14]
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 20:1 -
28
20 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in
the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2He
agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 "About the third hour he went
out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, `You also
go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' 5 So they went.
"He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did
the same thing. 6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing
around. He asked them, `Why have you been standing here all day long doing
nothing?'
7 "`Because no one has hired us,'
they answered.
"He said to them, `You also go and work in my vineyard.'
8" When evening came, the owner
of the vineyard said to his foreman, `Call the workers and pay them their wages,
beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.'
9 "The workers who were hired
about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who
were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also
received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the
landowner. 12`These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, `and
you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the
heat of the day.'
13 "But he answered one of them,
`Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a
denarius? 14
Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I
gave you. 15
Don't I have the right to do
what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
16 "So the last will be first, and
the first will be last."
17 Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples
aside and said to them, 18 "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to
the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death
19
and will turn him over to the
Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be
raised to life!"
20 Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and,
kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
21 "What is it you want?" he asked.
She said, "Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your
right and the other at your left in your kingdom."
22 "You don't know what you are
asking," Jesus said to them. "Can
you drink the cup I am going to drink?"
"We can," they answered. [15]
23 Jesus said to them, "You will
indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant.
These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my
Father."
24 When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two
brothers. 25 Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it
over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26 Not so with you.
Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
27 and whoever
wants to be first must be your slave—28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be
served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." [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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