Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JUNE
25
PSALMS: 25,
55, 85, 115, 145
PROVERBS: 25
OLD
TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 15:1 - 18:7
NEW
TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 1:1 -
24
PSALMS: 25
Of
David.
1
To
A you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
2
in
you I trust, O my God.
Do
not let me be put to shame,
nor
let my enemies triumph over me.
3
No
one whose hope is in you
will
ever be put to shame,
but
they will be put to shame
who
are treacherous without excuse.
4
Show
me your ways, O LORD,
teach
me your paths;
5
guide
me in your truth and teach me,
for
you are God my Savior,
and
my hope is in you all day long.
6
Remember,
O LORD, your great mercy and love,
for
they are from of old.
7
Remember
not the sins of my youth
and
my rebellious ways;
according
to your love remember me,
for
you are good, O LORD.
8
Good
and upright is the LORD;
therefore
he instructs sinners in his ways.
9
He
guides the humble in what is right
and
teaches them his way.
10
All
the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
for
those who keep the demands of his covenant.
11
For
the sake of your name, O LORD,
forgive
my iniquity, though it is great.
12
Who,
then, is the man that fears the LORD? [1]
He
will instruct him in the way chosen for him.
13
He
will spend his days in prosperity,
and
his descendants will inherit the land.
14
The
LORD confides in those who fear him;
he
makes his covenant known to them.
15
My
eyes are ever on the LORD,
for
only he will release my feet from the snare.
16
Turn
to me and be gracious to me,
for
I am lonely and afflicted.
17
The
troubles of my heart have multiplied;
free
me from my anguish.
18
Look
upon my affliction and my distress
and
take away all my sins.
19
See
how my enemies have increased
and
how fiercely they hate me!
20
Guard
my life and rescue me;
let
me not be put to shame,
for
I take refuge in you.
21
May
integrity and uprightness protect me,
because
my hope is in you.
22
Redeem
Israel, O God,
from
all their troubles! [2]
PSALMS: 55
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil A
of David.
1
Listen
to my prayer, O God,
do
not ignore my plea;
2
hear
me and answer me.
My
thoughts trouble me and I am distraught
3
at
the voice of the enemy,
at
the stares of the wicked;
for
they bring down suffering upon me
and
revile me in their anger.
4
My
heart is in anguish within me;
the
terrors of death assail me.
5
Fear
and trembling have beset me;
horror
has overwhelmed me.
6
I
said, "Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
I
would fly away and be at rest--
7
I
would flee far away
and
stay in the desert;
Selah
8
I
would hurry to my place of shelter,
far
from the tempest and storm."
9
Confuse
the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech,
for
I see violence and strife in the city.
10
Day
and night they prowl about on its walls;
malice
and abuse are within it.
11
Destructive
forces are at work in the city;
threats
and lies never leave its streets. [3]
12
If
an enemy were insulting me,
I
could endure it;
if
a foe were raising himself against me,
I
could hide from him.
13
But
it is you, a man like myself,
my
companion, my close friend,
14
with
whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship
as
we walked with the throng at the house of God.
15
Let
death take my enemies by surprise;
let
them go down alive to the grave, B
for
evil finds lodging among them.
16
But
I call to God,
and
the LORD saves me.
17
Evening,
morning and noon
I
cry out in distress,
and
he hears my voice.
18
He
ransoms me unharmed
from
the battle waged against me,
even
though many oppose me.
19
God,
who is enthroned forever,
will
hear them and afflict them--
Selah
men
who never change their ways
and
have no fear of God.
20
My
companion attacks his friends;
he
violates his covenant.
21
His
speech is smooth as butter,
yet
war is in his heart;
his
words are more soothing than oil, [4]
yet
they are drawn swords.
22
Cast
your cares on the LORD
and
he will sustain you;
he
will never let the righteous fall.
23
But
you, O God, will bring down the wicked
into
the pit of corruption;
bloodthirsty
and deceitful men
will
not live out half their days.
But
as for me, I trust in you. [5]
PSALMS: 85
For
the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.
1
You
showed favor to your land, O LORD;
you
restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2
You
forgave the iniquity of your people
and
covered all their sins.
Selah
3
You
set aside all your wrath
and
turned from your fierce anger.
4
Restore
us again, O God our Savior,
and
put away your displeasure toward us.
5
Will
you be angry with us forever?
Will
you prolong your anger through all generations?
6
Will
you not revive us again,
that
your people may rejoice in you?
7
Show
us your unfailing love, O LORD,
and
grant us your salvation.
8
I
will listen to what God the LORD will say;
he
promises peace to his people, his saints--
but
let them not return to folly.
9
Surely
his salvation is near those who fear him,
that
his glory may dwell in our land.
10
Love
and faithfulness meet together;
righteousness
and peace kiss each other.
11
Faithfulness
springs forth from the earth,
and
righteousness looks down from heaven.
12
The
LORD will indeed give what is good,
and
our land will yield its harvest.
13
Righteousness
goes before him [6]
and
prepares the way for his steps. [7]
PSALMS: 115
1
Not
to us, O LORD, not to us
but
to your name be the glory,
because
of your love and faithfulness.
2
Why
do the nations say,
"Where
is their God?"
3
Our
God is in heaven;
he
does whatever pleases him.
4
But
their idols are silver and gold,
made
by the hands of men.
5
They
have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes,
but they cannot see;
6
they
have ears, but cannot hear,
noses,
but they cannot smell;
7
they
have hands, but cannot feel,
feet,
but they cannot walk;
nor
can they utter a sound with their throats.
8
Those
who make them will be like them,
and
so will all who trust in them.
9
O
house of Israel, trust in the LORD--
he
is their help and shield.
10
O
house of Aaron, trust in the LORD--
he
is their help and shield.
11
You
who fear him, trust in the LORD--
he
is their help and shield.
12
The
LORD remembers us and will bless us:
He
will bless the house of Israel,
he
will bless the house of Aaron,
13
he
will bless those who fear the LORD--
small
and great alike. [8]
14
May
the LORD make you increase,
both
you and your children.
15
May
you be blessed by the LORD,
the
Maker of heaven and earth.
16
The
highest heavens belong to the LORD,
but
the earth he has given to man.
17
It
is not the dead who praise the LORD,
those
who go down to silence;
18
it
is we who extol the LORD,
both
now and forevermore.
Praise
the LORD. A [9]
PSALMS: 145
A
psalm of praise. Of David.
1
I
A will exalt you, my God the King;
I
will praise your name for ever and ever.
2
Every
day I will praise you
and
extol your name for ever and ever.
3
Great
is the LORD and most worthy of praise;
his
greatness no one can fathom.
4
One
generation will commend your works to another;
they
will tell of your mighty acts.
5
They
will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty,
and
I will meditate on your wonderful works. B
6
They
will tell of the power of your awesome works,
and
I will proclaim your great deeds.
7
They
will celebrate your abundant goodness
and
joyfully sing of your righteousness.
8
The
LORD is gracious and compassionate,
slow
to anger and rich in love.
9
The
LORD is good to all;
he
has compassion on all he has made.
10
All
you have made will praise you, O LORD;
your
saints will extol you.
11
They
will tell of the glory of your kingdom
and
speak of your might,
12
so
that all men may know of your mighty acts
and
the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
13
Your
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and
your dominion endures through all generations. [10]
The
LORD is faithful to all his promises
and
loving toward all he has made. C
14
The
LORD upholds all those who fall
and
lifts up all who are bowed down.
15
The
eyes of all look to you,
and
you give them their food at the proper time.
16
You
open your hand
and
satisfy the desires of every living thing.
17
The
LORD is righteous in all his ways
and
loving toward all he has made.
18
The
LORD is near to all who call on him,
to
all who call on him in truth.
19
He
fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
he
hears their cry and saves them.
20
The
LORD watches over all who love him,
but
all the wicked he will destroy.
21
My
mouth will speak in praise of the LORD.
Let
every creature praise his holy name
for
ever and ever. [11]
PROVERBS: 25
25
1
These
are more proverbs of Solomon, copied by the men of Hezekiah king of
Judah:
2
It
is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
to
search out a matter is the glory of kings.
3
As
the heavens are high and the earth is deep,
so
the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
4
Remove
the dross from the silver,
and
out comes material for A the silversmith;
5
remove
the wicked from the king's presence,
and
his throne will be established through righteousness.
6
Do
not exalt yourself in the king's presence,
and
do not claim a place among great men;
7
it
is better for him to say to you, "Come up here,"
than
for him to humiliate you before a nobleman.
What
you have seen with your eyes
8
do not bring B hastily to court,
for
what will you do in the end
if
your neighbor puts you to shame?
9
If
you argue your case with a neighbor,
do
not betray another man's confidence,
10
or
he who hears it may shame you
and
you will never lose your bad reputation.
11
A
word aptly spoken
is
like apples of gold in settings of silver.
12
Like
an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold
is
a wise man's rebuke to a listening ear. [12]
13
Like
the coolness of snow at harvest time
is
a trustworthy messenger to those who send him;
he
refreshes the spirit of his masters.
14
Like
clouds and wind without rain
is
a man who boasts of gifts he does not give.
15
Through
patience a ruler can be persuaded,
and
a gentle tongue can break a bone.
16
If
you find honey, eat just enough--
too
much of it, and you will vomit.
17
Seldom
set foot in your neighbor's house--
too
much of you, and he will hate you.
18
Like
a club or a sword or a sharp arrow
is
the man who gives false testimony against his neighbor.
19
Like
a bad tooth or a lame foot
is
reliance on the unfaithful in times of trouble.
20
Like
one who takes away a garment on a cold day,
or
like vinegar poured on soda,
is
one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
21
If
your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if
he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
22
In
doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,
and
the LORD will reward you.
23
As
a north wind brings rain,
so
a sly tongue brings angry looks. [13]
24
Better
to live on a corner of the roof
than
share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
25
Like
cold water to a weary soul
is
good news from a distant land.
26
Like
a muddied spring or a polluted well
is
a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
27
It
is not good to eat too much honey,
nor
is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
28
Like
a city whose walls are broken down
is
a man who lacks self-control. [14]
OLD
TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 15:1 - 18:7
15
1
An
oracle concerning Moab:
Ar
in Moab is ruined,
destroyed
in a night!
Kir
in Moab is ruined,
destroyed
in a night!
2
Dibon
goes up to its temple,
to
its high places to weep;
Moab
wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every
head is shaved
and
every beard cut off.
3
In
the streets they wear sackcloth;
on
the roofs and in the public squares
they
all wail,
prostrate
with weeping.
4
Heshbon
and Elealeh cry out,
their
voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore
the armed men of Moab cry out,
and
their hearts are faint.
5
My
heart cries out over Moab;
her
fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
as
far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They
go up the way to Luhith,
weeping
as they go;
on
the road to Horonaim
they
lament their destruction. [15]
6
The
waters of Nimrim are dried up
and
the grass is withered;
the
vegetation is gone
and
nothing green is left.
7
So
the wealth they have acquired and stored up
they
carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8
Their
outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their
wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their
lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9
Dimon's
A waters are full of blood,
but
I will bring still more upon Dimon B--
a
lion upon the fugitives of Moab
and
upon those who remain in the land.
16
1
Send lambs as tribute
to
the ruler of the land,
from
Sela, across the desert,
to
the mount of the Daughter of Zion.
2
Like
fluttering birds
pushed
from the nest,
so
are the women of Moab
at
the fords of the Arnon.
3
"Give
us counsel,
render
a decision. [16]
Make
your shadow like night--
at
high noon.
Hide
the fugitives,
do
not betray the refugees.
4
Let
the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
be
their shelter from the destroyer."
The
oppressor will come to an end,
and
destruction will cease;
the
aggressor will vanish from the land.
5
In
love a throne will be established;
in
faithfulness a man will sit on it--
one
from the house A of David--
one
who in judging seeks justice
and
speeds the cause of righteousness.
6
We
have heard of Moab's pride--
her
overweening pride and conceit,
her
pride and her insolence--
but
her boasts are empty.
7
Therefore
the Moabites wail,
they
wail together for Moab.
Lament
and grieve
for
the men B of Kir Hareseth.
8
The
fields of Heshbon wither,
the
vines of Sibmah also. [17]
The
rulers of the nations
have
trampled down the choicest vines,
which
once reached Jazer
and
spread toward the desert.
Their
shoots spread out
and
went as far as the sea.
9
So
I weep, as Jazer weeps,
for
the vines of Sibmah.
O
Heshbon, O Elealeh,
I
drench you with tears!
The
shouts of joy over your ripened fruit
and
over your harvests have been stilled.
10
Joy
and gladness are taken away from the orchards;
no
one sings or shouts in the vineyards;
no
one treads out wine at the presses,
for
I have put an end to the shouting.
11
My
heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my
inmost being for Kir Hareseth.
12
When
Moab appears at her high place,
she
only wears herself out;
when
she goes to her shrine to pray,
it
is to no avail.
13
This
is the word the LORD has already spoken concerning [18]
Moab. 14 But now the LORD says: "Within
three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor
and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and
feeble."
17
1
An
oracle concerning Damascus:
"See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but
will become a heap of ruins.
2
The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and
left to flocks, which will lie down,
with
no one to make them afraid.
3
The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and
royal power from Damascus;
the
remnant of Aram will be
like
the glory of the Israelites,"
declares
the LORD Almighty.
4
"In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the
fat of his body will waste away.
5
It
will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain
and
harvests the grain with his arm--
as
when a man gleans heads of grain
in
the Valley of Rephaim.
as
when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving
two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four
or five on the fruitful boughs,"
declares
the LORD, the God of Israel.
7
In
that day men will look to their Maker
and
turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8
They
will not look to the altars,
the
work of their hands,
and
they will have no regard for the Asherah poles A
and
the incense altars their fingers have made.
9
In
that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be
like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10
You
have forgotten God your Savior;
you
have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore,
though you set out the finest plants
and
plant imported vines,
11
though
on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and
on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet
the harvest will be as nothing
in
the day of disease and incurable pain.
12
Oh,
the raging of many nations--
they
rage like the raging sea! [20]
Oh,
the uproar of the peoples--
they
roar like the roaring of great waters!
13
Although
the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when
he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven
before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like
tumbleweed before a gale.
14
In
the evening, sudden terror!
Before
the morning, they are gone!
This
is the portion of those who loot us,
the
lot of those who plunder us.
18
1
Woe to the land of whirring wings A
along
the rivers of Cush, B
2
which
sends envoys by sea
in
papyrus boats over the water.
Go,
swift messengers,
to
a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to
a people feared far and wide,
an
aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose
land is divided by rivers. [21]
3
All
you people of the world,
you
who live on the earth,
when
a banner is raised on the mountains,
you
will see it,
and
when a trumpet sounds,
you
will hear it.
4
This
is what the LORD says to me:
"I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,
like
shimmering heat in the sunshine,
like
a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
5
For,
before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and
the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he
will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
and
cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6
They
will all be left to the mountain birds of prey
and
to the wild animals;
the
birds will feed on them all summer,
the
wild animals all winter.
7
At
that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty
from
a people tall and smooth-skinned,
from
a people feared far and wide,
an
aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose
land is divided by rivers--
the
gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.
[22]
NEW
TESTAMENT:
GALATIANS 1:1 - 24
1
1
Paul,
an apostle--sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the
Father, who raised him from the dead—2 and all the brothers with me,
To
the churches in Galatia:
3
Grace
and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who
gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to
the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
6
I
am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the
grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—7 which is
really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion
and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or
an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to
you, let him be eternally condemned! 9 As we have already said, so
now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you
accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
10
Am
I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please
men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
11
I
want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man
made up. 12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it;
rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
13
For
you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, [23]
how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. 14
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was
extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when God,
who set me apart from birth A and called me by his grace, was pleased
16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the
Gentiles, I did not consult any man, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem
to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia
and later returned to Damascus.
18
Then
after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter
B and stayed with him fifteen days. 19 I saw none of the
other apostles--only James, the Lord's brother. 20 I assure you
before God that what I am writing you is no lie. 21 Later I went to
Syria and Cilicia. 22 I was personally unknown to the churches of
Judea that are in Christ. 23 They only heard the report: "The man who
formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
24 And they praised God because of me. [24]
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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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