Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JULY
24
PSALMS: 24,
54, 84, 114, 144
PROVERBS: 24
OLD
TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 22:1 - 23:30
NEW
TESTAMENT: 2 THESSALONIANS 1:1 -
12
PSALMS: 24
Of
David. A psalm.
1
The
earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,
the
world, and all who live in it;
2
for
he founded it upon the seas
and
established it upon the waters.
3
Who
may ascend the hill of the LORD?
Who
may stand in his holy place?
4
He
who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who
does not lift up his soul to an idol
or
swear by what is false. A
5
He
will receive blessing from the LORD
and
vindication from God his Savior.
6
Such
is the generation of those who seek him,
who
seek your face, O God of Jacob. B
Selah
7
Lift
up your heads, O you gates;
be
lifted up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
8
Who
is this King of glory?
The
LORD strong and mighty,
the
LORD mighty in battle.
9
Lift
up your heads, O you gates;
lift
them up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
10
Who
is he, this King of glory?
The
LORD Almighty--
he
is the King of glory. [1]
Selah
[2]
PSALMS: 54
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil A
of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding
among us?"
1
Save
me, O God, by your name;
vindicate
me by your might.
2
Hear
my prayer, O God;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
3
Strangers
are attacking me;
ruthless
men seek my life--
men
without regard for God.
Selah
4
Surely
God is my help;
the
Lord is the one who sustains me.
5
Let
evil recoil on those who slander me;
in
your faithfulness destroy them.
6
I
will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I
will praise your name, O LORD,
for
it is good.
7
For
he has delivered me from all my troubles,
and
my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. [3]
PSALMS: 84
For
the director of music. According to gittith. A Of the Sons of
Korah. A psalm.
1
How
lovely is your dwelling place,
O
LORD Almighty!
2
My
soul yearns, even faints,
for
the courts of the LORD;
my
heart and my flesh cry out
for
the living God.
3
Even
the sparrow has found a home,
and
the swallow a nest for herself,
where
she may have her young--
a
place near your altar,
O
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4
Blessed
are those who dwell in your house;
they
are ever praising you.
Selah
5
Blessed
are those whose strength is in you,
who
have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6
As
they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they
make it a place of springs;
the
autumn rains also cover it with pools. B
7
They
go from strength to strength,
till
each appears before God in Zion.
8
Hear
my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen
to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah
9
Look
upon our shield, C O God;
look
with favor on your anointed one. [4]
10
Better
is one day in your courts
than
a thousand elsewhere;
I
would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than
dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11
For
the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the
LORD bestows favor and honor;
no
good thing does he withhold
from
those whose walk is blameless.
12
O
LORD Almighty,
blessed
is the man who trusts in you. [5]
PSALMS: 114
1
When
Israel came out of Egypt,
the
house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2
Judah
became God's sanctuary,
Israel
his dominion.
3
The
sea looked and fled,
the
Jordan turned back;
4
the
mountains skipped like rams,
the
hills like lambs.
5
Why
was it, O sea, that you fled,
O
Jordan, that you turned back,
6
you
mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you
hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble,
O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at
the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who
turned the rock into a pool,
the
hard rock into springs of water. [6]
PSALMS: 144
Of
David.
1
Praise
be to the LORD my Rock,
who
trains my hands for war,
my
fingers for battle.
2
He
is my loving God and my fortress,
my
stronghold and my deliverer,
my
shield, in whom I take refuge,
who
subdues peoples A under me.
3
O
LORD, what is man that you care for him,
the
son of man that you think of him?
4
Man
is like a breath;
his
days are like a fleeting shadow.
5
Part
your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch
the mountains, so that they smoke.
6
Send
forth lightning and scatter the enemies;
shoot
your arrows and rout them.
7
Reach
down your hand from on high;
deliver
me and rescue me
from
the mighty waters,
from
the hands of foreigners
8
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
9
I
will sing a new song to you, O God;
on
the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10
to
the One who gives victory to kings,
who
delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. [7]
11
Deliver
me and rescue me
from
the hands of foreigners
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
12
Then
our sons in their youth
will
be like well-nurtured plants,
and
our daughters will be like pillars
carved
to adorn a palace.
13
Our
barns will be filled
with
every kind of provision.
Our
sheep will increase by thousands,
by
tens of thousands in our fields;
14
our
oxen will draw heavy loads. B
There
will be no breaching of walls,
no
going into captivity,
no
cry of distress in our streets.
15
Blessed
are the people of whom this is true;
blessed
are the people whose God is the LORD. [8]
PROVERBS: 24
24
1
Do not envy wicked men,
do
not desire their company;
2
for
their hearts plot violence,
and
their lips talk about making trouble.
3
By
wisdom a house is built,
and
through understanding it is established;
4
through
knowledge its rooms are filled
with
rare and beautiful treasures.
5
A
wise man has great power,
and
a man of knowledge increases strength;
6
for
waging war you need guidance,
and
for victory many advisers.
7
Wisdom
is too high for a fool;
in
the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.
8
He
who plots evil
will
be known as a schemer.
9
The
schemes of folly are sin,
and
men detest a mocker.
10
If
you falter in times of trouble,
how
small is your strength!
11
Rescue
those being led away to death;
hold
back those staggering toward slaughter.
12
If
you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"
does
not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does
not he who guards your life know it?
Will
he not repay each person according to what he has done? [9]
13
Eat
honey, my son, for it is good;
honey
from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14
Know
also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;
if
you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
15
Do
not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's
house,
do
not raid his dwelling place;
16
for
though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,
but
the wicked are brought down by calamity.
17
Do
not gloat when your enemy falls;
when
he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
18
or
the LORD will see and disapprove
and
turn his wrath away from him.
19
Do
not fret because of evil men
or
be envious of the wicked,
20
for
the evil man has no future hope,
and
the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21
Fear
the LORD and the king, my son,
and
do not join with the rebellious,
22
for
those two will send sudden destruction upon them,
and
who knows what calamities they can bring?
23
These
also are sayings of the wise:
To
show partiality in judging is not good:
24
Whoever
says to the guilty, "You are innocent"--
peoples
will curse him and nations denounce him.
25
But
it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and
rich blessing will come upon them. [10]
26
An
honest answer
is
like a kiss on the lips.
27
Finish
your outdoor work
and
get your fields ready;
after
that, build your house.
28
Do
not testify against your neighbor without cause,
or
use your lips to deceive.
29
Do
not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;
I'll
pay that man back for what he did."
30
I
went past the field of the sluggard,
past
the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31
thorns
had come up everywhere,
the
ground was covered with weeds,
and
the stone wall was in ruins.
32
I
applied my heart to what I observed
and
learned a lesson from what I saw:
33
A
little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
34
and
poverty will come on you like a bandit
and
scarcity like an armed man. A [11]
OLD
TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 22:1 - 23:30
22
1
This
is what the LORD says: "Go down to the palace of the
king of Judah and proclaim this message there: 2 `Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on
David's throne--you, your officials and your people who come through these
gates. 3 This is what the LORD says:
Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has
been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless or the widow,
and do not shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then
kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace,
riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their
people. 5 But if you do not obey
these commands, declares the LORD, I swear by myself that this palace will
become a ruin.'"
6
For
this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah:
"Though you are like Gilead to me,
like
the summit of Lebanon,
I
will surely make you like a desert,
like
towns not inhabited.
7
I will send destroyers against you,
each
man with his weapons,
and
they will cut up your fine cedar beams
and
throw them into the fire.
8
"People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, `Why
has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?' 9
And
the answer will be: `Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their
God and have worshiped and served other gods.'"
10
Do
not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss;
rather,
weep bitterly for him who is exiled,
because
he will never return
nor
see his native land again.
11 For this is what the LORD says
about Shallum A son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of
Judah but has gone from this place: "He will never
return. 12 He will die in the place
where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again." [12]
13
"Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,
his
upper rooms by injustice,
making
his countrymen work for nothing,
not
paying them for their labor.
14
He says, `I will build myself a great palace
with
spacious upper rooms.'
So
he makes large windows in it,
panels
it with cedar
and
decorates it in red.
15
"Does it make you a king
to
have more and more cedar?
Did
not your father have food and drink?
He
did what was right and just,
so
all went well with him.
16
He defended the cause of the poor and needy,
and
so all went well.
Is
that not what it means to know me?"
declares
the LORD.
17
"But your eyes and your heart
are
set only on dishonest gain,
on
shedding innocent blood
and
on oppression and extortion."
18 Therefore this is what the LORD
says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
"They will not mourn for him: [13]
`Alas,
my brother! Alas, my sister!'
They
will not mourn for him:
`Alas,
my master! Alas, his splendor!'
19
He will have the burial of a donkey--
dragged
away and thrown
outside
the gates of Jerusalem."
20
"Go up to Lebanon and cry out,
let
your voice be heard in Bashan,
cry
out from Abarim,
for
all your allies are crushed.
21 I
warned you when you felt secure,
but
you said, `I will not listen!'
This
has been your way from your youth;
you
have not obeyed me.
22 The
wind will drive all your shepherds away,
and
your allies will go into exile.
Then
you will be ashamed and disgraced
because
of all your wickedness.
23
You who live in `Lebanon, B'
who
are nestled in cedar buildings,
how
you will groan when pangs come upon you,
pain
like that of a woman in labor!
24
"As surely as I live,"
declares the LORD, "even if you, Jehoiachin
C son of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.
25 I will hand you over to those who
seek your life, those you fear--to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the
Babylonians. D 26 I will
hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither
of you was born, and there you both will [14] die.
27
You will never come back to the land you long to return to."
28
Is
this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot,
an
object no one wants?
Why
will he and his children be hurled out,
cast
into a land they do not know?
29
O
land, land, land,
hear
the word of the LORD!
30
This
is what the LORD says:
"Record this man as if childless,
a
man who will not prosper in his lifetime,
for
none of his offspring will prosper,
none
will sit on the throne of David
or
rule anymore in Judah."
23
1
"Woe
to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the
sheep of my pasture!" declares the LORD. 2 Therefore this is
what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people:
"Because you have scattered my flock and driven them
away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the
evil you have done," declares the LORD. 3 "I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the
countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture,
where they will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and
they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,"
declares the LORD.
5
"The days are coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will raise up to David A a righteous Branch,
6
In his days Judah will be saved
and
Israel will live in safety.
This
is the name by which he will be called:
The
LORD Our Righteousness.
7 "So
then, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when people will no longer say, `As surely as the LORD
lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,' 8 but they will say, `As surely as the LORD lives, who
brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all
the countries where he had banished them.' Then they will live in their own
land."
9
Concerning
the prophets:
My
heart is broken within me;
all
my bones tremble.
I
am like a drunken man,
like
a man overcome by wine,
because
of the LORD
and
his holy words.
10
The
land is full of adulterers;
because
of the curse B the land lies parched C
and
the pastures in the desert are withered.
The
prophets follow an evil course
and
use their power unjustly.
11
"Both prophet and priest are godless; [16]
even
in my temple I find their wickedness,"
declares
the LORD.
12
"Therefore their path will become slippery;
they
will be banished to darkness
and
there they will fall.
I
will bring disaster on them
in
the year they are punished,"
declares
the LORD.
13
"Among the prophets of Samaria
I
saw this repulsive thing:
They
prophesied by Baal
and
led my people Israel astray.
14
And among the prophets of Jerusalem
I
have seen something horrible:
They
commit adultery and live a lie.
They
strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so
that no one turns from his wickedness.
They
are all like Sodom to me;
the
people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah."
15
Therefore,
this is what the LORD Almighty says concerning the prophets:
"I will make them eat bitter food
and
drink poisoned water,
ungodliness
has spread throughout the land."
16
This
is what the LORD Almighty says:
"Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you;
they
fill you with false hopes.
They
speak visions from their own minds,
not
from the mouth of the LORD.
17
They keep saying to those who despise me,
`The
LORD says: You will have peace.'
And
to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts
they
say, `No harm will come to you.'
18
But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD
to
see or to hear his word?
Who
has listened and heard his word?
19
See, the storm of the LORD
will
burst out in wrath,
a
whirlwind swirling down
on
the heads of the wicked.
20
The anger of the LORD will not turn back
until
he fully accomplishes
the
purposes of his heart.
In
days to come
you
will understand it clearly.
yet
they have prophesied.
NEW
TESTAMENT: 2 THESSALONIANS 1:1 -
12
1
1
Paul,
Silas A and Timothy,
To
the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2
Grace
and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3
We
ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith
is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is
increasing.
4
Therefore,
among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the
persecutions and trials you are enduring.
5
All
this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be
counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7
and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will
happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his
powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do
not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with
everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the
majesty of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his
holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This
includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
11
With
this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of
his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours
and every act prompted by your faith. 12 We pray this so that the
name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the
grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. B [18]
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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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