Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER 7
PSALMS: 7, 37, 67, 97, 127
PROVERBS: 7
OLD TESTAMENT: EXODUS 4:1 -
5:22
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 18:1 -
20
PSALMS: 7
A shiggaion A of David, which he
sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.
1 O LORD my God, I take refuge in you;
save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
2 or they will tear me like a lion
and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this
and there is guilt on my hands--
4 if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me
or without cause have robbed my foe--
5 then let my enemy pursue and overtake me;
let him trample my life to the ground
and make me sleep in the dust.
Selah
6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
rise up against the rage of my enemies.
Awake, my God; decree justice.
7 Let the assembled peoples gather around you.
Rule over them from on high;
8 let the LORD judge the peoples.
Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,
according to my integrity, O Most High.
9 O righteous God,
who searches minds and hearts,
bring to an end the violence of the wicked
and make the righteous secure. [1]
10 My shield B is God Most High,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
a God who expresses his wrath every day.
12 If he does not relent,
he C will sharpen his sword;
he will bend and string his bow.
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
he makes ready his flaming arrows.
14 He who is pregnant with evil
and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.
15 He who digs a hole and scoops it out
falls into the pit he has made.
16 The trouble he causes recoils on himself;
his violence comes down on his own head.
17 I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness
and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. [2]
PSALMS: 37
Of David.
1 Do A not fret because of evil men
or be envious of those who do wrong;
2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
3 Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4 Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret--it leads only to evil.
9 For evil men will be cut off,
but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
11 But the meek will inherit the land
and enjoy great peace. [3]
12 The wicked plot against the righteous
and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he knows their day is coming.
14 The wicked draw the sword
and bend the bow
to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose ways are upright.
15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.
16 Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked;
17 for the power of the wicked will be broken,
but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18 The days of the blameless are known to the LORD,
and their inheritance will endure forever.
19 In times of disaster they will not wither;
in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.
20 But the wicked will perish:
The LORD's enemies will be like the beauty of the fields,
they will vanish--vanish like smoke.
21 The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously;
22 those the LORD blesses will inherit the land,
but those he curses will be cut off. [4]
23 If the LORD delights in a man's way,
he makes his steps firm;
24 though he stumble, he will not fall,
for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
25 I was young and now I am old,
yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken
or their children begging bread.
26 They are always generous and lend freely;
their children will be blessed.
27 Turn from evil and do good;
then you will dwell in the land forever.
28 For the LORD loves the just
and will not forsake his faithful ones.
They will be protected forever,
but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;
29 the righteous will inherit the land
and dwell in it forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom,
and his tongue speaks what is just.
31 The law of his God is in his heart;
his feet do not slip.
32 The wicked lie in wait for the righteous,
seeking their very lives;
33 but the LORD will not leave them in their power
or let them be condemned when brought to trial. [5]
34 Wait for the LORD
and keep his way.
He will exalt you to inherit the land;
when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
flourishing like a green tree in its native soil,
36 but he soon passed away and was no more;
though I looked for him, he could not be found.
37 Consider the blameless, observe the upright;
there is a future B for the man of peace.
38 But all sinners will be destroyed;
the future C of the wicked will be cut off.
39 The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD;
he is their stronghold in time of trouble.
40 The LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him. [6]
PSALMS: 67
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A
song.
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face shine upon us,
Selah
2 that your ways may be known on earth,
your salvation among all nations.
3 May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you.
4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you rule the peoples justly
and guide the nations of the earth.
Selah
5 May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you.
6 Then the land will yield its harvest,
and God, our God, will bless us.
7 God will bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear him. [7]
PSALMS: 97
1 The LORD reigns, let the earth be glad;
let the distant shores rejoice.
2 Clouds and thick darkness surround him;
righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
3 Fire goes before him
and consumes his foes on every side.
4 His lightning lights up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the earth.
6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
and all the peoples see his glory.
7 All who worship images are put to shame,
those who boast in idols--
worship him, all you gods!
8 Zion hears and rejoices
and the villages of Judah are glad
because of your judgments, O LORD.
9 For you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth;
you are exalted far above all gods.
10 Let those who love the LORD hate evil,
for he guards the lives of his faithful ones
and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is shed upon the righteous
and joy on the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, you who are righteous,
and praise his holy name. [8]
PSALMS: 127
A song of ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the LORD builds the house,
its builders labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchmen stand guard in vain.
2 In vain you rise early
and stay up late,
toiling for food to eat--
for he grants sleep to A those he loves.
3 Sons are a heritage from the LORD,
children a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are sons born in one's youth.
5 Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
when they contend with their enemies in the gate. [9]
PROVERBS: 7
7 1 My son, keep my words
and store up my commands within you.
2 Keep my commands and you will live;
guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my
sister,"
and call understanding your kinsman;
5 they will keep you from the adulteress,
from the wayward wife with her seductive words.
6 At the window of my house
I looked out through the lattice.
7 I saw among the simple,
I noticed among the young men,
a youth who lacked judgment.
8 He was going down the street near her corner,
walking along in the direction of her house
9 at twilight, as the day was fading,
as the dark of night set in.
10 Then out came a woman to meet him,
dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
11 (She is loud and defiant,
her feet never stay at home;
12 now in the street, now in the squares,
at every corner she lurks.)
13 She took hold of him and kissed him
and with a brazen face she said:
14 "I have fellowship offerings A at home;
today I fulfilled my vows.
15 So I came out to meet you; [10]
I looked for you and have found you!
16 I have covered my bed
with colored linens from Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come, let's drink deep of love till morning;
let's enjoy ourselves with love!
19 My husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey.
20 He took his purse filled with money
and will not be home till full moon."
21 With persuasive words she led him astray;
she seduced him with her smooth talk.
22 All at once he followed her
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer B stepping into a noose C
23 till an arrow pierces his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
little knowing it will cost him his life.
24 Now then, my sons, listen to me;
pay attention to what I say.
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways
or stray into her paths.
26 Many are the victims she has brought down;
her slain are a mighty throng.
27 Her house is a highway to the grave, D
leading down to the chambers of death. [11]
OLD TESTAMENT: EXODUS 4:1 -
5:22
4 1 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and
say, `The LORD did not appear to you'?"
2 Then the LORD said to him, "What
is that in your hand?"
"A staff," he replied.
3 The LORD said, "Throw it on the
ground."
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from
it. 4 Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the
tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back
into a staff in his hand. 5 "This," said the LORD, "is
so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers--the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob--has appeared to you."
6 Then the LORD said, "Put your
hand inside your cloak." So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when
he took it out, it was leprous, A like snow.
7 "Now put it back into your
cloak," he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he
took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
8 Then the LORD said, "If they do
not believe you or pay attention to the first miraculous sign, they may believe
the second. 9
But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water
from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river
will become blood on the ground."
10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither
in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and
tongue."
11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave
man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him
blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you
what to say."
13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do
it."
14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know
he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be
glad when he sees you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both
of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will
be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take this staff in
your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it."
18 Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him,
"Let me go back to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still
alive."
Jethro said, "Go, and I wish you well."
19 Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are
dead." 20 So Moses took his [12]wife and sons, put them on a donkey
and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
21 The LORD said to Moses, "When
you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have
given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let
the people go. 22 Then say to Pharaoh, `This is what the LORD says: Israel is my
firstborn son, 23 and I told you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But you
refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.' "
24 At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses B and was about to kill him.
25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and
touched Moses' feet with it. C "Surely you are a
bridegroom of blood to me," she said. 26 So the LORD let
him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of blood," referring to
circumcision.)
27 The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into
the desert to meet Moses." So he met Moses at the mountain of God and
kissed him. 28 Then Moses told Aaron everything the LORD
had sent him to say, and also about all the miraculous signs he had commanded
him to perform.
29 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
30 and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to
Moses. He also performed the signs before the people,
31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about
them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
5 1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
`Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the desert.'
"
2 Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel
go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go."
3 Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us
take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our
God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword."
4 But the king of Egypt said, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the
people away from their labor? Get back to your work!" 5
Then Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you
are stopping them from working."
6 That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and
foremen in charge of the people: 7 "You are no longer to
supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own
straw. 8 But require them to make the same number of
bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are
crying out, `Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' 9 Make
the work harder for the men so that they keep working and pay no attention to
lies." [13] 10 Then the
slave drivers and the foremen went out and said to the people, "This is what
Pharaoh says: `I will not give you any more straw. 11 Go
and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be
reduced at all.'" 12 So the people scattered all over
Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. 13 The slave
drivers kept pressing them, saying, "Complete the work required of you for each
day, just as when you had straw."
14 The Israelite foremen appointed by Pharaoh's slave drivers were
beaten and were asked, "Why didn't you meet your quota of bricks yesterday or
today, as before?"
15 Then the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: "Why have
you treated your servants this way? 16 Your servants are
given no straw, yet we are told, `Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten,
but the fault is with your own people."
17 Pharaoh said, "Lazy, that's what you are--lazy! That is why you keep
saying, `Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.' 18 Now get
to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota
of bricks."
19 The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were
told, "You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day."
20 When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron
waiting to meet them, 21 and they said, "May the LORD look
upon you and judge you! You have made us a stench to Pharaoh and his officials
and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."
22 Moses returned to the LORD and said, "O Lord, why have you brought
trouble upon this people? Is this why you sent me? 23 Ever
since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble upon this
people, and you have not rescued your people at all." [14]
NEW TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 18:1 -
20
18 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
2 He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said: "I tell you
the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never
enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this
child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 "And whoever welcomes a little
child like this in my name welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones
who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone
hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
7 "Woe to the world because of the
things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man
through whom they come! 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it
away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two
hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes
you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life
with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
10 "See that you do not look down
on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always
see the face of my Father in heaven. A
12 "What do you think? If a man
owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the
ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?
13 And if he finds
it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the
ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not
willing that any of these little ones should be lost.
15 "If your brother sins against
you, B go and
show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have
won your brother over. 16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that
`every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three
witnesses.' C 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he
refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax
collector.
18 "I tell you the truth, whatever
you bind on earth will be D bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
will be E loosed in heaven.
19 "Again, I tell you that if two
of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my
Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with
them." [15]
[1] Excerpted from Compton
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[15] Excerpted from Compton
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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