Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
OCTOBER
18
PSALMS:
18, 48, 78, 108,
138
PROVERBS: 18
OLD
TESTAMENT: GENESIS 16:1 - 18:15
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 6:1 -
24
PSALMS: 18
For
the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the
words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies
and from the hand of Saul. He said:
1
I
love you, O LORD, my strength.
2
The
LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my
God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He
is my shield and the horn A of my salvation, my
stronghold.
3
I
call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and
I am saved from my enemies.
4
The
cords of death entangled me;
the
torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
5
The
cords of the grave B coiled around me;
the
snares of death confronted me.
6
In
my distress I called to the LORD;
I
cried to my God for help.
From
his temple he heard my voice;
my
cry came before him, into his ears.
7
The
earth trembled and quaked,
and
the foundations of the mountains shook;
they
trembled because he was angry.
8
Smoke
rose from his nostrils;
consuming
fire came from his mouth,
burning
coals blazed out of it.
9
He
parted the heavens and came down;
dark
clouds were under his feet.
10
He
mounted the cherubim and flew;
he
soared on the wings of the wind. [1]
11
He
made darkness his covering, his canopy around him--
the
dark rain clouds of the sky.
12
Out
of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,
with
hailstones and bolts of lightning.
13
The
LORD thundered from heaven;
the
voice of the Most High resounded. C
14
He
shot his arrows and scattered the enemies,
great
bolts of lightning and routed them.
15
The
valleys of the sea were exposed
and
the foundations of the earth laid bare
at
your rebuke, O LORD,
at
the blast of breath from your nostrils.
16
He
reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he
drew me out of deep waters.
17
He
rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from
my foes, who were too strong for me.
18
They
confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but
the LORD was my support.
19
He
brought me out into a spacious place;
he
rescued me because he delighted in me.
20
The
LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according
to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
21
For
I have kept the ways of the LORD;
I
have not done evil by turning from my God.
22
All
his laws are before me;
I
have not turned away from his decrees.
23
I
have been blameless before him
and
have kept myself from sin.
24
The
LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according
to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. [2]
25
To
the faithful you show yourself faithful,
to
the blameless you show yourself blameless,
26
to
the pure you show yourself pure,
but
to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
27
You
save the humble
but
bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
28
You,
O LORD, keep my lamp burning;
my
God turns my darkness into light.
29
With
your help I can advance against a troop D;
with
my God I can scale a wall.
30
As
for God, his way is perfect;
the
word of the LORD is flawless.
He
is a shield
for
all who take refuge in him.
31
For
who is God besides the LORD?
And
who is the Rock except our God?
32
It
is God who arms me with strength
and
makes my way perfect.
33
He
makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
he
enables me to stand on the heights.
34
He
trains my hands for battle;
my
arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35
You
give me your shield of victory,
and
your right hand sustains me;
you
stoop down to make me great.
36
You
broaden the path beneath me,
so
that my ankles do not turn.
37
I
pursued my enemies and overtook them;
I
did not turn back till they were destroyed.
38
I
crushed them so that they could not rise;
they
fell beneath my feet. [3]
39
You
armed me with strength for battle;
you
made my adversaries bow at my feet.
40
You
made my enemies turn their backs in flight,
and
I destroyed my foes.
41
They
cried for help, but there was no one to save them--
to
the LORD, but he did not answer.
42
I
beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind;
I
poured them out like mud in the streets.
43
You
have delivered me from the attacks of the people;
you
have made me the head of nations;
people
I did not know are subject to me.
44
As
soon as they hear me, they obey me;
foreigners
cringe before me.
45
They
all lose heart;
they
come trembling from their strongholds.
46
The
LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock!
Exalted
be God my Savior!
47
He
is the God who avenges me,
who
subdues nations under me,
48
who
saves me from my enemies.
You
exalted me above my foes;
from
violent men you rescued me.
49
Therefore
I will praise you among the nations, O LORD;
I
will sing praises to your name.
50
He
gives his king great victories;
he
shows unfailing kindness to his anointed,
to
David and his descendants forever. [4]
PSALMS: 48
A
song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1
Great
is the LORD, and most worthy of praise,
in
the city of our God, his holy mountain.
2
It
is beautiful in its loftiness,
the
joy of the whole earth.
Like
the utmost heights of Zaphon A is Mount Zion,
the
B city of the Great King.
3
God
is in her citadels;
he
has shown himself to be her fortress.
4
When
the kings joined forces,
when
they advanced together,
5
they
saw her and were astounded;
they
fled in terror.
6
Trembling
seized them there,
pain
like that of a woman in labor.
7
You
destroyed them like ships of Tarshish
shattered
by an east wind.
8
As
we have heard,
so
have we seen
in
the city of the LORD Almighty,
in
the city of our God:
God
makes her secure forever.
Selah
9
Within
your temple, O God,
we
meditate on your unfailing love.
10
Like
your name, O God,
your
praise reaches to the ends of the earth;
your
right hand is filled with righteousness. [5]
11
Mount
Zion rejoices,
the
villages of Judah are glad
because
of your judgments.
12
Walk
about Zion, go around her,
count
her towers,
13
consider
well her ramparts,
view
her citadels,
that
you may tell of them to the next generation.
14
For
this God is our God for ever and ever;
he
will be our guide even to the end. [6]
PSALMS: 78
A
maskil A of Asaph.
1
O
my people, hear my teaching;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
2
I
will open my mouth in parables,
I
will utter hidden things, things from of old--
3
what
we have heard and known,
what
our fathers have told us.
4
We
will not hide them from their children;
we
will tell the next generation
the
praiseworthy deeds of the LORD,
his
power, and the wonders he has done.
5
He
decreed statutes for Jacob
and
established the law in Israel,
which
he commanded our forefathers
to
teach their children,
6
so
the next generation would know them,
even
the children yet to be born,
and
they in turn would tell their children.
7
Then
they would put their trust in God
and
would not forget his deeds
but
would keep his commands.
8
They
would not be like their forefathers--
a
stubborn and rebellious generation,
whose
hearts were not loyal to God,
whose
spirits were not faithful to him.
9
The
men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned
back on the day of battle;
10
they
did not keep God's covenant
and
refused to live by his law.
11
They
forgot what he had done,
the
wonders he had shown them.
12
He
did miracles in the sight of their fathers
in
the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13
He
divided the sea and led them through;
he
made the water stand firm like a wall.
14
He
guided them with the cloud by day
and
with light from the fire all night.
15
He
split the rocks in the desert
and
gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16
he
brought streams out of a rocky crag
and
made water flow down like rivers.
17
But
they continued to sin against him,
rebelling
in the desert against the Most High.
18
They
willfully put God to the test
by
demanding the food they craved.
19
They
spoke against God, saying,
"Can
God spread a table in the desert?
20
When
he struck the rock, water gushed out,
and
streams flowed abundantly.
But
can he also give us food?
Can
he supply meat for his people?"
21
When
the LORD heard them, he was very angry;
his
fire broke out against Jacob,
and
his wrath rose against Israel,
22
for
they did not believe in God
or
trust in his deliverance.
23
Yet
he gave a command to the skies above
and
opened the doors of the heavens;
24
he
rained down manna for the people to eat, [7]
he
gave them the grain of heaven.
25
Men
ate the bread of angels;
he
sent them all the food they could eat.
26
He
let loose the east wind from the heavens
and
led forth the south wind by his power.
27
He
rained meat down on them like dust,
flying
birds like sand on the seashore.
28
He
made them come down inside their camp,
all
around their tents.
29
They
ate till they had more than enough,
for
he had given them what they craved.
30
But
before they turned from the food they craved,
even
while it was still in their mouths,
31
God's
anger rose against them;
he
put to death the sturdiest among them,
cutting
down the young men of Israel.
32
In
spite of all this, they kept on sinning;
in
spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33
So
he ended their days in futility
and
their years in terror.
34
Whenever
God slew them, they would seek him;
they
eagerly turned to him again.
35
They
remembered that God was their Rock,
that
God Most High was their Redeemer.
36
But
then they would flatter him with their mouths,
lying
to him with their tongues;
37
their
hearts were not loyal to him,
they
were not faithful to his covenant.
38
Yet
he was merciful;
he
forgave their iniquities
and
did not destroy them.
Time
after time he restrained his anger
and
did not stir up his full wrath. [8]
39
He
remembered that they were but flesh,
a
passing breeze that does not return.
40
How
often they rebelled against him in the desert
and
grieved him in the wasteland!
41
Again
and again they put God to the test;
they
vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42
They
did not remember his power--
the
day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43
the
day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt,
his
wonders in the region of Zoan.
44
He
turned their rivers to blood;
they
could not drink from their streams.
45
He
sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and
frogs that devastated them.
46
He
gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their
produce to the locust.
47
He
destroyed their vines with hail
and
their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48
He
gave over their cattle to the hail,
their
livestock to bolts of lightning.
49
He
unleashed against them his hot anger,
his
wrath, indignation and hostility--
a
band of destroying angels.
50
He
prepared a path for his anger;
he
did not spare them from death
but
gave them over to the plague.
51
He
struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the
firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52
But
he brought his people out like a flock;
he
led them like sheep through the desert.
53
He
guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but
the sea engulfed their enemies.
54
Thus
he brought them to the border of his holy land, [9]
to
the hill country his right hand had taken.
55
He
drove out nations before them
and
allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
he
settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56
But
they put God to the test
and
rebelled against the Most High;
they
did not keep his statutes.
57
Like
their fathers they were disloyal and faithless,
as
unreliable as a faulty bow.
58
They
angered him with their high places;
they
aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59
When
God heard them, he was very angry;
he
rejected Israel completely.
60
He
abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the
tent he had set up among men.
61
He
sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his
splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62
He
gave his people over to the sword;
he
was very angry with his inheritance.
63
Fire
consumed their young men,
and
their maidens had no wedding songs;
64
their
priests were put to the sword,
and
their widows could not weep.
65
Then
the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as
a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
66
He
beat back his enemies;
he
put them to everlasting shame.
67
Then
he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he
did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68
but
he chose the tribe of Judah, [10]
Mount
Zion, which he loved.
69
He
built his sanctuary like the heights,
like
the earth that he established forever.
70
He
chose David his servant
and
took him from the sheep pens;
71
from
tending the sheep he brought him
to
be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of
Israel his inheritance.
72
And
David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with
skillful hands he led them. [11]
PSALMS: 108
A
song. A psalm of David.
1
My
heart is steadfast, O God;
I
will sing and make music with all my soul.
2
Awake,
harp and lyre!
I
will awaken the dawn.
3
I
will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;
I
will sing of you among the peoples.
4
For
great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your
faithfulness reaches to the skies.
5
Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens,
and
let your glory be over all the earth.
6
Save
us and help us with your right hand,
that
those you love may be delivered.
7
God
has spoken from his sanctuary:
"In triumph I will parcel out
Shechem
and
measure off the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead
is mine, Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim
is my helmet,
Judah
my scepter.
9 Moab
is my washbasin,
upon
Edom I toss my sandal;
over
Philistia I shout in triumph."
10
Who
will bring me to the fortified city?
Who
will lead me to Edom?
11
Is
it not you, O God, you who have rejected us
and
no longer go out with our armies?
12
Give
us aid against the enemy,
for
the help of man is worthless.
13
With
God we will gain the victory, [12]
and
he will trample down our enemies. [13]
PSALMS: 138
Of
David.
1
I
will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
before
the "gods" I will sing your praise.
2
I
will bow down toward your holy temple
and
will praise your name
for
your love and your faithfulness,
for
you have exalted above all things
your
name and your word.
3
When
I called, you answered me;
you
made me bold and stouthearted.
4
May
all the kings of the earth praise you, O LORD,
when
they hear the words of your mouth.
5
May
they sing of the ways of the LORD,
6
Though
the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly,
but
the proud he knows from afar.
7
Though
I walk in the midst of trouble,
you
preserve my life;
you
stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,
with
your right hand you save me.
8
The
LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
your
love, O LORD, endures forever--
do
not abandon the works of your hands. [14]
PROVERBS: 18
18
1
An unfriendly man pursues selfish
ends;
he
defies all sound judgment.
2
A
fool finds no pleasure in understanding
but
delights in airing his own opinions.
3
When
wickedness comes, so does contempt,
and
with shame comes disgrace.
4
The
words of a man's mouth are deep waters,
but
the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
5
It
is not good to be partial to the wicked
or
to deprive the innocent of justice.
6
A
fool's lips bring him strife,
and
his mouth invites a beating.
7
A
fool's mouth is his undoing,
and
his lips are a snare to his soul.
8
The
words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they
go down to a man's inmost parts.
9
One
who is slack in his work
is
brother to one who destroys.
10
The
name of the LORD is a strong tower;
the
righteous run to it and are safe.
11The
wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
they
imagine it an unscalable wall.[15]
12
Before
his downfall a man's heart is proud,
but
humility comes before honor.
13
He
who answers before listening--
that
is his folly and his shame.
14
A
man's spirit sustains him in sickness,
but
a crushed spirit who can bear?
15
The
heart of the discerning acquires knowledge;
the
ears of the wise seek it out.
16
A
gift opens the way for the giver
and
ushers him into the presence of the great.
17
The
first to present his case seems right,
till
another comes forward and questions him.
18
Casting
the lot settles disputes
and
keeps strong opponents apart.
19
An
offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city,
and
disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.
20
From
the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled;
with
the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.
21
The
tongue has the power of life and death,
and
those who love it will eat its fruit.
22
He
who finds a wife finds what is good
and
receives favor from the LORD. [16]
23
A
poor man pleads for mercy,
but
a rich man answers harshly.
24
A
man of many companions may come to ruin,
but
there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. [17]
OLD
TESTAMENT: GENESIS 16:1 - 18:15
16
1
Now
Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian
maidservant named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept
me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a
family through her."
Abram
agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan
ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to
her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When
she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5 Then
Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my
servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me.
May the LORD judge between you and me."
6
"Your
servant is in your hands," Abram said. "Do with her whatever you think best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
7
The
angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring
that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where
are you going?"
"I'm
running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
9
Then
the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your
mistress and submit to her."
10
The
angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that
they will be too numerous to count."
11
The
angel of the LORD also said to her:
"You are now with child
and
you will have a son.
You
shall name him Ishmael, A
for
the LORD has heard of your misery.
12 He will
be a wild donkey of a man;
his
hand will be against everyone
and
everyone's hand against him,
and
he will live in hostility
toward
B
all his brothers."
13
She
gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You
are the God who sees me," for she said, "I
have now seen C the One who sees
me." 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi
D; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
15
So
Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had
borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
[18]
17
1
When
Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty A; walk before me and be blameless. 2 I will confirm my
covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."
3
Abram
fell facedown, and God said to him, 4 "As
for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many
nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram B; your name will be Abraham, C for I have made you a father of many nations.
6 I will
make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from
you. 7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant
between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come,
to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
8 The
whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting
possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their
God."
9
Then
God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my
covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
10 This is
my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to
keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo
circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
12 For the
generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be
circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a
foreigner--those who are not your offspring. 13 Whether born in your
household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in
your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised
male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his
people; he has broken my covenant."
15
God
also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are
no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and
will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the
mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17
Abraham
fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a
hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?" 18
And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"
19
Then
God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a
son, and you will call him Isaac. D
I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his
descendants after him. 20
And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I
will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his
numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a
great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will
bear to you by this time next year." 22 When he had finished
speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
23
On
that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household
or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as
God told him. 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was
circumcised, 25 and his son Ishmael was thirteen; [19]
26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same
day. 27 And every male in Abraham's household, including those born
in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with
him.
18
1
The
LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at
the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up
and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the
entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
3
He
said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, A do not pass
your servant by.
4
Let
a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under
this tree. 5 Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed
and then go on your way--now that you have come to your servant."
"Very
well," they answered, "do as you say."
6
So
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. "Quick," he said, "get three seahs
B of fine flour and knead it and bake some bread."
7
Then
he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant,
who hurried to prepare it. 8 He then brought some curds and milk and
the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he
stood near them under a tree.
9
"Where
is your wife Sarah?" they asked him.
"There,
in the tent," he said.
10
Then
the LORD C said, "I will surely return to
you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son."
Now
Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind
him.
11Abraham and Sarah were already old and
well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
12 So
Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, "After I am worn out and my master
D is old, will I now have this
pleasure?"
13
Then
the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and
say, `Will I really have a child, now that I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard
for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah
will have a son."
15
Sarah
was afraid, so she lied and said, "I did not laugh."
But
he said, "Yes, you did laugh." [20]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 6:1 -
24
6
1
"Be careful not to do your `acts of righteousness' before
men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in
heaven.
2
"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with
trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be
honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in
full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing, 4
so that your
giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees
what is done in secret, will reward you.
5
"And when you
pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received
their reward in full. 6
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and
pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your
Father, who sees what is done in
secret, will reward you.
7 And when you
pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because
of their many words. 8 Do not be like
them, for your Father knows what you need before
you ask him.
9
"This, then, is how you should pray:
"`Our Father in
heaven,
hallowed
be your name,
10
your
kingdom come,
your
will be done
on
earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give
us today our daily bread.
12 Forgive
us our debts,
as
we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And
lead us not into temptation,
but
deliver us from the evil one.
A'
14
For
if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive
men their sins, your Father will not
forgive your sins.
16
"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for
they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the
truth, [21] they have received their reward in full.
17 But
when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not
be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen;
and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
19
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where
moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where
thieves do not break in and steal. 21
For where your treasure is, there your
heart will be also.
22
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your
whole body will be full of light. 23
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body
will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is
that darkness!
24
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one
and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You
cannot serve both God and Money. [22]
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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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