Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
SEPTEMBER
2
PSALMS: 2,
32, 62, 92, 122
PROVERBS: 2
OLD
TESTAMENT: EZEKIEL 44:1 - 45:12
NEW
TESTAMENT: 1 PETER 1:1 -
12
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: EZEKIEL 44:1 - 45:12
44
1
Then
the man brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east,
and it was shut. 2 The LORD said to me, "This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one
may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the LORD, the God of Israel,
has entered through it. 3
The prince himself is the only one who
may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He is to enter by
way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way."
4
Then
the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked
and saw the glory of the LORD filling the temple of the LORD, and I fell
facedown.
5
The
LORD said to me, "Son of man, look carefully, listen
closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the
regulations regarding the temple of the LORD. Give attention to the entrance of
the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary. 6 Say to the
rebellious house of Israel, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough of
your detestable practices, O house of Israel! 7 In addition to all
your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart
and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food,
fat and blood, and you broke my covenant. 8 Instead of carrying
out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my
sanctuary. 9 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner
uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the
foreigners who live among the Israelites.
10
"`The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray and
who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their
sin. 11 They may serve in my sanctuary, having charge of the gates
of the temple and serving in it; they may slaughter the burnt offerings and
sacrifices for the people and stand before the people and serve them.
12 But
because they served them in the presence of their idols and made the house of
Israel fall into sin, therefore I have sworn with uplifted hand that they must
bear the consequences of their sin, declares the Sovereign LORD.
13 They
are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things
or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame of their detestable
practices. 14 Yet I will put them in charge of the duties of the temple
and all the work that is to be done in it.
15
"`But the priests, who are Levites and descendants of Zadok
and who faithfully carried out the duties of my sanctuary when the Israelites
went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand
before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the Sovereign
LORD. 16 They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come
near my table to minister before me and perform my service.
17
"`When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to
wear linen clothes; they must not wear any woolen garment while ministering at
the gates of the inner court or inside the temple. 18 They are to wear
linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They
must not wear anything that makes them perspire. 19 When they go out
into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they
have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on
other clothes, so that they do not consecrate the people by means of their
garments. [11]
20
"`They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long,
but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed. 21 No priest is to
drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22 They must not marry
widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or
widows of priests. 23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy
and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the
clean.
24
"`In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and
decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees
for all my appointed feasts, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.
25
"`A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead
person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter,
brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself. 26 After he is
cleansed, he must wait seven days. 27
On the day he goes into the inner court
of the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering for
himself, declares the Sovereign LORD.
28
"`I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to
give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.
29 They
will eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and
everything in Israel devoted A to
the LORD will belong to them. 30
The best of all the firstfruits and of
all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the
first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your
household. 31 The priests must not eat anything, bird or animal, found
dead or torn by wild animals.
45
1
"`When you allot the land as an inheritance, you are to
present to the LORD a portion of the land as a sacred district, 25,000 cubits
long and 20,000 A cubits wide; the
entire area will be holy. 2
Of this, a section 500 cubits square is
to be for the sanctuary, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
3 In the
sacred district, measure off a section 25,000 cubits B long and 10,000 cubits C wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy
Place. 4 It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests,
who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the LORD. It
will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the
sanctuary. 5 An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will
belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to
live in. D
6
"`You are to give the city as its property an area 5,000
cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjoining the sacred portion; it will belong
to the whole house of Israel.
7
"`The prince will have the land bordering each side of the
area formed by the sacred district and the property of the city. It will extend
westward from the west side and eastward from the east side, running lengthwise
from the western to the eastern border parallel to one of the tribal
portions. 8 This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes
will no longer oppress my people but will allow the house of Israel [12] to possess the land according to their tribes.
9
"`This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have gone far
enough, O princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is
just and right. Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign
LORD. 10 You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah
E and an accurate bath.
F 11 The ephah and the bath are to be the same size, the bath
containing a tenth of a homerG and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the
homer is to be the standard measure for both. 12 The shekel
H is to consist of twenty gerahs.
Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.
I [13]
NEW
TESTAMENT: 1 PETER 1:1 -
12
1
1
Peter,
an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To
God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit,
for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood:
Grace
and peace be yours in abundance.
3
Praise
be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has
given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
or fade--kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by
God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in
the last time. 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little
while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7
These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which
perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in
praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you
have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you
believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
9
for
you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10
Concerning
this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you,
searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out
the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing
when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but
you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have
preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long
to look into these things. [14]
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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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