Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
AUGUST
4
PSALMS: 4,
34, 64, 94, 124
PROVERBS: 4
OLD
TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 44:24 - 47:7
NEW
TESTAMENT: 2 TIMOTHY 2:22 -
3:17
PSALMS: 4
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of
David.
1
Answer
me when I call to you,
O
my righteous God.
Give
me relief from my distress;
be
merciful to me and hear my prayer.
2
How
long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame A?
How
long will you love delusions and seek false gods B?
Selah
3
Know
that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;
the
LORD will hear when I call to him.
4
In
your anger do not sin;
when
you are on your beds,
search
your hearts and be silent.
Selah
5
Offer
right sacrifices
and
trust in the LORD.
6
Many
are asking, "Who can show us any good?"
Let
the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.
7
You
have filled my heart with greater joy
than
when their grain and new wine abound.
8
I
will lie down and sleep in peace,
for
you alone, O LORD,
make
me dwell in safety. [1]
PSALMS:
34
Of
David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and
he left.
1
I
A will extol the LORD at all
times;
his
praise will always be on my lips.
2
My
soul will boast in the LORD;
let
the afflicted hear and rejoice.
3
Glorify
the LORD with me;
let
us exalt his name together.
4
I
sought the LORD, and he answered me;
he
delivered me from all my fears.
5
Those
who look to him are radiant;
their
faces are never covered with shame.
6
This
poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
he
saved him out of all his troubles.
7
The
angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and
he delivers them.
8
Taste
and see that the LORD is good;
blessed
is the man who takes refuge in him.
9
Fear
the LORD, you his saints,
for
those who fear him lack nothing.
10
The
lions may grow weak and hungry,
but
those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
11
Come,
my children, listen to me;
I
will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12
Whoever
of you loves life
and
desires to see many good days, [2]
13
keep
your tongue from evil
and
your lips from speaking lies.
14
Turn
from evil and do good;
seek
peace and pursue it.
15
The
eyes of the LORD are on the righteous
and
his ears are attentive to their cry;
16
the
face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to
cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17
The
righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he
delivers them from all their troubles.
18
The
LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and
saves those who are crushed in spirit.
19
A
righteous man may have many troubles,
but
the LORD delivers him from them all;
20
he
protects all his bones,
not
one of them will be broken.
21
Evil
will slay the wicked;
the
foes of the righteous will be condemned.
22
The
LORD redeems his servants;
no
one will be condemned who takes refuge in him. [3]
PSALMS: 64
For
the director of music. A psalm of David.
1
Hear
me, O God, as I voice my complaint;
protect
my life from the threat of the enemy.
2
Hide
me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
from
that noisy crowd of evildoers.
3
They
sharpen their tongues like swords
and
aim their words like deadly arrows.
4
They
shoot from ambush at the innocent man;
they
shoot at him suddenly, without fear.
5
They
encourage each other in evil plans,
they
talk about hiding their snares;
they
say, "Who will see them A?"
6
They
plot injustice and say,
"We
have devised a perfect plan!"
Surely
the mind and heart of man are cunning.
7
But
God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly
they will be struck down.
8
He
will turn their own tongues against them
and
bring them to ruin;
all
who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
9
All
mankind will fear;
they
will proclaim the works of God
and
ponder what he has done.
10
Let
the righteous rejoice in the LORD
and
take refuge in him;
let
all the upright in heart praise him! [4]
PSALMS: 94
1
O
LORD, the God who avenges,
O
God who avenges, shine forth.
2
Rise
up, O Judge of the earth;
pay
back to the proud what they deserve.
3
How
long will the wicked, O LORD,
how
long will the wicked be jubilant?
4
They
pour out arrogant words;
all
the evildoers are full of boasting.
5
They
crush your people, O LORD;
they
oppress your inheritance.
6
They
slay the widow and the alien;
they
murder the fatherless.
7
They
say, "The LORD does not see;
the
God of Jacob pays no heed."
8
Take
heed, you senseless ones among the people;
you
fools, when will you become wise?
9
Does
he who implanted the ear not hear?
Does
he who formed the eye not see?
10
Does
he who disciplines nations not punish?
Does
he who teaches man lack knowledge?
11
The
LORD knows the thoughts of man;
he
knows that they are futile.
12
Blessed
is the man you discipline, O LORD,
the
man you teach from your law;
13
you
grant him relief from days of trouble,
till
a pit is dug for the wicked.
14
For
the LORD will not reject his people;
he
will never forsake his inheritance.
15
Judgment
will again be founded on righteousness,
and
all the upright in heart will follow it.[5]
16
Who
will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who
will take a stand for me against evildoers?
17
Unless
the LORD had given me help,
I
would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
18
When
I said, "My foot is slipping,"
your
love, O LORD, supported me.
19
When
anxiety was great within me,
your
consolation brought joy to my soul.
20
Can
a corrupt throne be allied with you--
one
that brings on misery by its decrees?
21
They
band together against the righteous
and
condemn the innocent to death.
22
But
the LORD has become my fortress,
and
my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
23
He
will repay them for their sins
and
destroy them for their wickedness;
the
LORD our God will destroy them. [6]
PSALMS: 124
A
song of ascents. Of David.
1
If
the LORD had not been on our side--
let
Israel say--
2
if
the LORD had not been on our side
when
men attacked us,
3
when
their anger flared against us,
they
would have swallowed us alive;
4
the
flood would have engulfed us,
the
torrent would have swept over us,
5
the
raging waters
would
have swept us away.
6
Praise
be to the LORD,
who
has not let us be torn by their teeth.
7
We
have escaped like a bird
out
of the fowler's snare;
the
snare has been broken,
and
we have escaped.
8
Our
help is in the name of the LORD,
the
Maker of heaven and earth. [7]
PROVERBS: 4
4
1 Listen, my sons, to a father's
instruction;
pay
attention and gain understanding.
2
I
give you sound learning,
so
do not forsake my teaching.
3
When
I was a boy in my father's house,
still
tender, and an only child of my mother,
4
he
taught me and said,
"Lay
hold of my words with all your heart;
keep
my commands and you will live.
5
Get
wisdom, get understanding;
do
not forget my words or swerve from them.
6
Do
not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;
love
her, and she will watch over you.
7
Wisdom
is supreme; therefore get wisdom.
Though
it cost all you have, A get understanding.
8
Esteem
her, and she will exalt you;
embrace
her, and she will honor you.
9
She
will set a garland of grace on your head
and
present you with a crown of splendor."
10
Listen,
my son, accept what I say,
and
the years of your life will be many.
11
I
guide you in the way of wisdom
and
lead you along straight paths.
12
When
you walk, your steps will not be hampered;
when
you run, you will not stumble.
13
Hold
on to instruction, do not let it go;
guard
it well, for it is your life.
14
Do
not set foot on the path of the wicked
or
walk in the way of evil men.
15
Avoid
it, do not travel on it;
turn
from it and go on your way.
16
For
they cannot sleep till they do evil; [8]
they
are robbed of slumber till they make someone fall.
17
They
eat the bread of wickedness
and
drink the wine of violence.
18
The
path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
shining
ever brighter till the full light of day.
19
But
the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they
do not know what makes them stumble.
20
My
son, pay attention to what I say;
listen
closely to my words.
21
Do
not let them out of your sight,
keep
them within your heart;
22
for
they are life to those who find them
and
health to a man's whole body.
23
Above
all else, guard your heart,
for
it is the wellspring of life.
24
Put
away perversity from your mouth;
keep
corrupt talk far from your lips.
25
Let
your eyes look straight ahead,
fix
your gaze directly before you.
26
Make
level B paths for your feet
and
take only ways that are firm.
27
Do
not swerve to the right or the left;
keep
your foot from evil. [9]
OLD
TESTAMENT: JEREMIAH 44:24 - 47:7
24
Then
Jeremiah said to all the people, including the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah in
Egypt. 25 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
You and your wives have shown by your actions what you promised when you
said, `We will certainly carry out the vows we
made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of
Heaven.'
"Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your
vows! 26 But hear the
word of the LORD, all Jews living in Egypt: `I
swear by my great name,' says the LORD, `that
no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or
swear, "As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives." 27 For I am
watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by
sword and famine until they are all destroyed.
28
Those
who escape the sword and return to the land of Judah from Egypt will be very
few. Then the whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose
word will stand--mine or theirs.
29
"`This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this
place,' declares the LORD, `so that you will
know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.' 30 This is
what the LORD says: `I am going to hand Pharaoh Hophra
king of Egypt over to his enemies who seek his life, just as I handed Zedekiah
king of Judah over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking
his life.'"
45
1
This
is what Jeremiah the prophet told Baruch son of Neriah in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, after Baruch had written on a scroll the
words Jeremiah was then dictating: 2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you,
Baruch: 3 You said,
`Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am
worn out with groaning and find no rest.' "
4
The
LORD said, "Say this to him: `This is what the LORD
says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted,
throughout the land. 5 Should you then
seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will bring disaster on all
people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your
life.'"
46
1
This
is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
nations:
2
Concerning
Egypt:
This
is the message against the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was
defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by [10]Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
3
"Prepare your shields, both large and small,
and
march out for battle!
4 Harness
the horses,
mount
the steeds!
Take
your positions
with
helmets on!
Polish
your spears,
put
on your armor!
5 What
do I see?
They
are terrified,
they
are retreating,
their
warriors are defeated.
They
flee in haste
without
looking back,
and
there is terror on every side,"
declares
the LORD.
6
"The swift cannot flee
nor
the strong escape.
In
the north by the River Euphrates
they
stumble and fall.
7 "Who
is this that rises like the Nile,
like
rivers of surging waters?
8 Egypt
rises like the Nile,
like
rivers of surging waters. [11]
She
says, `I will rise and cover the earth;
I
will destroy cities and their people.'
9 Charge,
O horses!
Drive
furiously, O charioteers!
March
on, O warriors--
men
of Cush A and Put who carry shields,
men
of Lydia who draw the bow.
10 But
that day belongs to the Lord, the LORD Almighty--
a
day of vengeance, for vengeance on his foes.
The
sword will devour till it is satisfied,
till
it has quenched its thirst with blood.
For
the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will offer sacrifice
in
the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
11 "Go
up to Gilead and get balm,
O
Virgin Daughter of Egypt.
But
you multiply remedies in vain;
there
is no healing for you.
12 The
nations will hear of your shame;
your
cries will fill the earth.
One
warrior will stumble over another;
both
will fall down together."
13
This
is the message the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt:
14
"Announce this in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; [12]
proclaim
it also in Memphis B and Tahpanhes:
`Take
your positions and get ready,
for
the sword devours those around you.'
15 Why
will your warriors be laid low?
They
cannot stand, for the LORD will push them down.
16 They
will stumble repeatedly;
they
will fall over each other.
They
will say, `Get up, let us go back
to
our own people and our native lands,
away
from the sword of the oppressor.'
17 There
they will exclaim,
`Pharaoh
king of Egypt is only a loud noise;
he
has missed his opportunity.'
18 "As
surely as I live,"
declares the King,
whose
name is the LORD Almighty,
"one will come who is like Tabor among the mountains,
like
Carmel by the sea.
19 Pack
your belongings for exile,
you
who live in Egypt,
for
Memphis will be laid waste
and
lie in ruins without inhabitant.
20 "Egypt
is a beautiful heifer,
but
a gadfly is coming
against
her from the north.
[13]
21 The
mercenaries in her ranks
are
like fattened calves.
They
too will turn and flee together,
they
will not stand their ground,
for
the day of disaster is coming upon them,
the
time for them to be punished.
22 Egypt
will hiss like a fleeing serpent
as
the enemy advances in force;
they
will come against her with axes,
like
men who cut down trees.
23 They
will chop down her forest,"
declares
the LORD,
"dense though it be.
They
are more numerous than locusts,
they
cannot be counted.
24 The
Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame,
handed
over to the people of the north."
25
The
LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "I am about to
bring punishment on Amon god of Thebes,C on Pharaoh, on Egypt and her gods and her
kings, and on those who rely on Pharaoh. 26 I will hand them
over to those who seek their lives, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his
officers. Later, however, Egypt will be inhabited as in times past,"
declares the LORD.
27
"Do not fear, O Jacob my servant;
do
not be dismayed, O Israel.
I
will surely save you out of a distant place,
your
descendants from the land of their exile.
[14]
Jacob
will again have peace and security,
and
no one will make him afraid.
28
Do
not fear, O Jacob my servant,
for
I am with you," declares the LORD.
"Though
I completely destroy all the nations
among
which I scatter you,
I
will not completely destroy you.
I
will discipline you but only with justice;
I
will not let you go entirely unpunished."
47
1
This
is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:
2
This
is what the LORD says:
"See how the waters are rising in the north;
they
will become an overflowing torrent.
They
will overflow the land and everything in it,
the
towns and those who live in them.
The
people will cry out;
all
who dwell in the land will wail
3 at
the sound of the hoofs of galloping steeds,
at
the noise of enemy chariots
and
the rumble of their wheels.
Fathers
will not turn to help their children;
their
hands will hang limp.
4 For
the day has come [15]
to
destroy all the Philistines
and
to cut off all survivors
who
could help Tyre and Sidon.
The
LORD is about to destroy the Philistines,
the
remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
A
5 Gaza
will shave her head in mourning;
Ashkelon
will be silenced.
O
remnant on the plain,
how
long will you cut yourselves?
6 "`Ah,
sword of the LORD,' you cry,
`how
long till you rest?
Return
to your scabbard;
cease
and be still.'
7 But
how can it rest
when
the LORD has commanded it,
when
he has ordered it
to
attack Ashkelon and the coast?"
[16]
NEW
TESTAMENT: 2 TIMOTHY 2:22 -
3:17
22
Flee
the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace,
along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 Don't
have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they
produce quarrels. 24 And the
Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to
teach, not resentful. 25 Those who
oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them
repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that
they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has
taken them captive to do his will.
3 1
But
mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People
will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without
love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the
good, 4
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God—5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with
them.
6
They
are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed
women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil
desires,
7
always
learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8 Just as
Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of
depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they
will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be
clear to everyone.
10
You,
however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith,
patience, love, endurance, 11
persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch,
Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all
of them. 12
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be
persecuted, 13 while
evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But
as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of,
because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how
from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise
for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness, 17 so that
the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. [17]
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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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