Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JULY
2
PSALMS: 2,
32, 62, 92, 122
PROVERBS: 2
OLD
TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 37:1 - 38:22
NEW
TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 6:1 -
18
PSALMS:
2
1
Why
do the nations conspire A
and
the peoples plot in vain?
2
The
kings of the earth take their stand
and
the rulers gather together
against
the LORD
and
against his Anointed One. B
3
"Let
us break their chains," they say,
"and
throw off their fetters."
4
The
One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the
Lord scoffs at them.
5
Then
he rebukes them in his anger
and
terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6
"I have installed my King C
on
Zion, my holy hill."
7
I
will proclaim the decree of the LORD:
He
said to me, "You are my Son
D;
today
I have become your Father.
E
8
Ask
of me,
and
I will make the nations your inheritance,
the
ends of the earth your possession.
9
You
will rule them with an iron scepter F;
you
will dash them to pieces like pottery."
10
Therefore,
you kings, be wise;
be
warned, you rulers of the earth.
11
Serve
the LORD with fear
and
rejoice with trembling.
12
Kiss
the Son, lest he be angry
and
you be destroyed in your way,
for
his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed
are all who take refuge in him. [1]
PSALMS: 32
Of
David. A maskil. A
1
Blessed
is he
whose
transgressions are forgiven,
whose
sins are covered.
2
Blessed
is the man
whose
sin the LORD does not count against him
and
in whose spirit is no deceit.
3
When
I kept silent,
my
bones wasted away
through
my groaning all day long.
4
For
day and night
your
hand was heavy upon me;
my
strength was sapped
as
in the heat of summer.
Selah
5
Then
I acknowledged my sin to you
and
did not cover up my iniquity.
I
said, "I will confess
my
transgressions to the LORD"--
and
you forgave
the
guilt of my sin.
Selah
6
Therefore
let everyone who is godly pray to you
while
you may be found;
surely
when the mighty waters rise,
they
will not reach him.
7
You
are my hiding place; [2]
you
will protect me from trouble
and
surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah
8
I
will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I
will counsel you and watch over you.
9
Do
not be like the horse or the mule,
which
have no understanding
but
must be controlled by bit and bridle
or
they will not come to you.
10
Many
are the woes of the wicked,
but
the LORD's unfailing love
surrounds
the man who trusts in him.
11
Rejoice
in the LORD and be glad, you righteous;
sing,
all you who are upright in heart! [3]
PSALMS: 62
For
the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1
My
soul finds rest in God alone;
my
salvation comes from him.
2
He
alone is my rock and my salvation;
he
is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
3
How
long will you assault a man?
Would
all of you throw him down--
this
leaning wall, this tottering fence?
4
They
fully intend to topple him
from
his lofty place;
they
take delight in lies.
With
their mouths they bless,
but
in their hearts they curse.
Selah
5
Find
rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my
hope comes from him.
6
He
alone is my rock and my salvation;
he
is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
7
My
salvation and my honor depend on God A;
he
is my mighty rock, my refuge.
8
Trust
in him at all times, O people;
pour
out your hearts to him,
for
God is our refuge.
Selah
9
Lowborn
men are but a breath, [4]
the
highborn are but a lie;
if
weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
together
they are only a breath.
10
Do
not trust in extortion
or
take pride in stolen goods;
though
your riches increase,
do
not set your heart on them.
11
One
thing God has spoken,
two
things have I heard:
that
you, O God, are strong,
12
and
that you, O Lord, are loving.
Surely
you will reward each person
according
to what he has done. [5]
PSALMS: 92
A
psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.
1
It
is good to praise the LORD
and
make music to your name, O Most High,
2
to
proclaim your love in the morning
and
your faithfulness at night,
3
to
the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and
the melody of the harp.
4
For
you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD;
I
sing for joy at the works of your hands.
5
How
great are your works, O LORD,
how
profound your thoughts!
6
The
senseless man does not know,
fools
do not understand,
7
that
though the wicked spring up like grass
and
all evildoers flourish,
they
will be forever destroyed.
8
But
you, O LORD, are exalted forever.
9
For
surely your enemies, O LORD,
surely
your enemies will perish;
all
evildoers will be scattered.
10
You
have exalted my horn A like that of a wild ox;
fine
oils have been poured upon me.
11
My
eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
my
ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
12
The
righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they
will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13
planted
in the house of the LORD, [6]
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14
They
will still bear fruit in old age,
they
will stay fresh and green,
15
proclaiming,
"The LORD is upright;
he
is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him." [7]
PSALMS: 122
A
song of ascents. Of David.
1
I
rejoiced with those who said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the
LORD."
2
Our
feet are standing
in
your gates, O Jerusalem.
3
Jerusalem
is built like a city
that
is closely compacted together.
4
That
is where the tribes go up,
the
tribes of the LORD,
to
praise the name of the LORD
according
to the statute given to Israel.
5
There
the thrones for judgment stand,
the
thrones of the house of David.
6
Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem:
"May those who love you be
secure.
7 May
there be peace within your walls
and
security within your citadels."
8
For
the sake of my brothers and friends,
I
will say, "Peace be within you."
9
For
the sake of the house of the LORD our God,
I
will seek your prosperity. [8]
PROVERBS: 2
2
1
My son, if you accept my words
and
store up my commands within you,
2
turning
your ear to wisdom
and
applying your heart to understanding,
3
and
if you call out for insight
and
cry aloud for understanding,
4
and
if you look for it as for silver
and
search for it as for hidden treasure,
5
then
you will understand the fear of the LORD
and
find the knowledge of God.
6
For
the LORD gives wisdom,
and
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7
He
holds victory in store for the upright,
he
is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
8
for
he guards the course of the just
and
protects the way of his faithful ones.
9
Then
you will understand what is right and just
and
fair--every good path.
10
For
wisdom will enter your heart,
and
knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11
Discretion
will protect you,
and
understanding will guard you.
12
Wisdom
will save you from the ways of wicked men,
from
men whose words are perverse,
13
who
leave the straight paths
to
walk in dark ways,
14
who
delight in doing wrong
and
rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15
whose
paths are crooked
and
who are devious in their ways.
16
It
will save you also from the adulteress,
from
the wayward wife with her seductive words [9]
17
who
has left the partner of her youth
and
ignored the covenant she made before God. A
18
For
her house leads down to death
and
her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19
None
who go to her return
or
attain the paths of life.
20
Thus
you will walk in the ways of good men
and
keep to the paths of the righteous.
21
For
the upright will live in the land,
and
the blameless will remain in it;
22
but
the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and
the unfaithful will be torn from it. [10]
OLD
TESTAMENT: ISAIAH 37:1 - 38:22
37
1
When
King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into
the temple of the LORD. 2 He sent Eliakim the palace administrator,
Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the
prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 They told him, "This is what Hezekiah
says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children
come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. 4
It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the field
commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living
God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard.
Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives."
5
When
King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them,
"Tell your master, `This is what the LORD says: Do
not be afraid of what you have heard--those words with which the underlings of
the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Listen! I am going to put a spirit in him so that when he
hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have
him cut down with the sword.'"
8
When
the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew
and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9
Now
Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite A king of
Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent
messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 "Say to Hezekiah king of
Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, `Jerusalem
will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'
11
Surely
you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries,
destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 Did the
gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them--the gods
of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?"
14
Hezekiah
received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the
temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah
prayed to the LORD: 16 "O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned
between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You
have made heaven and earth.
17
Give
ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; listen to all the words
Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.
18
"It
is true, O LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and
their lands. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and
destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by
human hands. 20 Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so
that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God.
B"
21
Then
Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This
is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me
concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the LORD has spoken against him:
despises
and mocks you.
The
Daughter of Jerusalem
tosses
her head as you flee.
23
Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed?
Against
whom have you raised your voice
and
lifted your eyes in pride?
Against
the Holy One of Israel!
24
By your messengers
you
have heaped insults on the Lord.
And
you have said,
`With
my many chariots
I
have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the
utmost heights of Lebanon.
I
have cut down its tallest cedars,
the
choicest of its pines.
I
have reached its remotest heights,
the
finest of its forests.
25
I have dug wells in foreign lands C
and
drunk the water there.
With
the soles of my feet
I
have dried up all the streams of Egypt.'
26
"Have you not heard?
Long
ago I ordained it.
In
days of old I planned it;
that
you have turned fortified cities
into
piles of stone.
27
Their people, drained of power,
are
dismayed and put to shame.
They
are like plants in the field,
like
tender green shoots,
like
grass sprouting on the roof,
scorched
D
before it grows up.
28
"But I know where you stay
and
when you come and go
and
how you rage against me.
29
Because you rage against me
and
because your insolence has reached my ears,
I
will put my hook in your nose
and
my bit in your mouth,
and
I will make you return
by
the way you came.
30
"This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah:
"This
year you will eat what grows by itself,
and
the second year what springs from that.
But
in the third year sow and reap,
plant
vineyards and eat their fruit.
31
Once more a remnant of the house of Judah
will
take root below and bear fruit above.
and
out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.
The
zeal of the LORD Almighty
will
accomplish this.
33
"Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria:
"He
will not enter this city
or
shoot an arrow here.
He
will not come before it with shield
or
build a siege ramp against it.
34
By the way that he came he will return;
he
will not enter this city,"
declares
the LORD.
35
"I will defend this city and save it,
for
my sake and for the sake of David my servant!"
36
Then
the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five
thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next
morning--there were all the dead bodies! 37 So Sennacherib king of
Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
38
One
day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons
Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword, and they escaped to the
land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as
king.
38
1
In
those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah
son of Amoz went to him and said, "This
is what the LORD says: Put your house in order,
because you are going to die; you will not recover."
2
Hezekiah
turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, 3 "Remember, O
LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and
have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. [14]
4
Then
the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: 5 "Go
and tell Hezekiah, `This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I
have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your
life. 6 And I will deliver you and
this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
7
"`This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised:
8
I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on
the stairway of Ahaz.'"
So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
9
A
writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10
I
said, "In the prime of my life
must
I go through the gates of death A
and
be robbed of the rest of my years?"
11
I
said, "I will not again see the LORD,
the
LORD, in the land of the living;
no
longer will I look on mankind,
or
be with those who now dwell in this world. B
12
Like
a shepherd's tent my house
has
been pulled down and taken from me.
Like
a weaver I have rolled up my life,
and
he has cut me off from the loom;
day
and night you made an end of me.
13
I
waited patiently till dawn,
but
like a lion he broke all my bones;
day
and night you made an end of me.
14
I
cried like a swift or thrush,
I
moaned like a mourning dove.
My
eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.
I
am troubled; O Lord, come to my aid!" [15]
15 But
what can I say?
He
has spoken to me, and he himself has done this.
I
will walk humbly all my years
because
of this anguish of my soul.
16
Lord,
by such things men live;
and
my spirit finds life in them too.
You
restored me to health
and
let me live.
17
Surely
it was for my benefit
that
I suffered such anguish.
In
your love you kept me
from
the pit of destruction;
you
have put all my sins
behind
your back.
18
For
the grave C cannot praise you,
death
cannot sing your praise;
those
who go down to the pit
cannot
hope for your faithfulness.
19
The
living, the living--they praise you,
as
I am doing today;
fathers
tell their children
about
your faithfulness.
20
The
LORD will save me,
and
we will sing with stringed instruments
all
the days of our lives [16]
in
the temple of the LORD.
21
Isaiah
had said, "Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will
recover."
22
Hezekiah
had asked, "What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the
LORD?"[17]
NEW
TESTAMENT: GALATIANS 6:1 -
18
6
1
Brothers,
if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.
But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other's
burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If
anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4
Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself,
without comparing himself to somebody else, 5 for each one should
carry his own load.
6
Anyone
who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his
instructor.
7
Do
not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature
A will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from
the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing
good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
10
Therefore,
as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who
belong to the family of believers.
11
See
what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!
12
Those
who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be
circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the
cross of Christ. 13 Not even those who are circumcised obey the law,
yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh.
14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which B the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world. 15 Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything;
what counts is a new creation. 16 Peace and mercy to all who follow
this rule, even to the Israel of God.
17
Finally,
let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
18
The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.[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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