Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
OCTOBER
19
PSALMS:
19, 49, 79, 109,
139
PROVERBS: 19
OLD
TESTAMENT: GENESIS 18:16 - 19:38
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 6:25 -
7:14
PSALMS: 19
For
the director of music. A psalm of David.
1
The
heavens declare the glory of God;
the
skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2
Day
after day they pour forth speech;
night
after night they display knowledge.
3
There
is no speech or language
where
their voice is not heard. A
4
Their
voice B goes out into all the earth,
their
words to the ends of the world.
In
the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
5
which
is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion,
like
a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6
It
rises at one end of the heavens
and
makes its circuit to the other;
nothing
is hidden from its heat.
7
The
law of the LORD is perfect,
reviving
the soul.
The
statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
making
wise the simple.
8
The
precepts of the LORD are right,
giving
joy to the heart.
The
commands of the LORD are radiant,
giving
light to the eyes.
9
The
fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring
forever.
The
ordinances of the LORD are sure
and
altogether righteous. [1]
10
They
are more precious than gold,
than
much pure gold;
they
are sweeter than honey,
than
honey from the comb.
11
By
them is your servant warned;
in
keeping them there is great reward.
12
Who
can discern his errors?
Forgive
my hidden faults.
13
Keep
your servant also from willful sins;
may
they not rule over me.
Then
will I be blameless,
innocent
of great transgression.
14
May
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be
pleasing in your sight,
O
LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. [2]
PSALMS: 49
For
the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.
1
Hear
this, all you peoples;
listen,
all who live in this world,
2
both
low and high,
rich
and poor alike:
3
My
mouth will speak words of wisdom;
the
utterance from my heart will give understanding.
4
I
will turn my ear to a proverb;
with
the harp I will expound my riddle:
5
Why
should I fear when evil days come,
when
wicked deceivers surround me--
6
those
who trust in their wealth
and
boast of their great riches?
7
No
man can redeem the life of another
or
give to God a ransom for him--
8
the
ransom for a life is costly,
no
payment is ever enough--
9
that
he should live on forever
and
not see decay.
10
For
all can see that wise men die;
the
foolish and the senseless alike perish
and
leave their wealth to others.
11
Their
tombs will remain their houses A forever,
their
dwellings for endless generations,
though
they had B named lands after themselves. [3]
12
But
man, despite his riches, does not endure;
he
is C like the beasts that perish.
13
This
is the fate of those who trust in themselves,
and
of their followers, who approve their sayings.
Selah
14
Like
sheep they are destined for the grave, D
and
death will feed on them.
The
upright will rule over them in the morning;
their
forms will decay in the grave, E
far
from their princely mansions.
15
But
God will redeem my life F from the grave;
he
will surely take me to himself.
Selah
16
Do
not be overawed when a man grows rich,
when
the splendor of his house increases;
17
for
he will take nothing with him when he dies,
his
splendor will not descend with him.
18
Though
while he lived he counted himself blessed--
and
men praise you when you prosper--
19
he
will join the generation of his fathers,
who
will never see the light of life.
20
A
man who has riches without understanding
is
like the beasts that perish. [4]
PSALMS: 79
A
psalm of Asaph.
1
O
God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
they
have defiled your holy temple,
they
have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2
They
have given the dead bodies of your servants
as
food to the birds of the air,
the
flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
3
They
have poured out blood like water
all
around Jerusalem,
and
there is no one to bury the dead.
4
We
are objects of reproach to our neighbors,
of
scorn and derision to those around us.
5
How
long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever?
How
long will your jealousy burn like fire?
6
Pour
out your wrath on the nations
that
do not acknowledge you,
on
the kingdoms
that
do not call on your name;
7
for
they have devoured Jacob
and
destroyed his homeland.
8
Do
not hold against us the sins of the fathers;
may
your mercy come quickly to meet us,
for
we are in desperate need.
9
Help
us, O God our Savior,
for
the glory of your name;
deliver
us and forgive our sins
for
your name's sake.
10
Why
should the nations say,
"Where
is their God?" [5]
Before
our eyes, make known among the nations
that
you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
11
May
the groans of the prisoners come before you;
by
the strength of your arm
preserve
those condemned to die.
12
Pay
back into the laps of our neighbors seven times
the
reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord.
13
Then
we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will
praise you forever;
from
generation to generation
we
will recount your praise. [6]
PSALMS: 109
For
the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1
O
God, whom I praise,
do
not remain silent,
2
for
wicked and deceitful men
have
opened their mouths against me;
they
have spoken against me with lying tongues.
3
With
words of hatred they surround me;
they
attack me without cause.
4
In
return for my friendship they accuse me,
but
I am a man of prayer.
5
They
repay me evil for good,
and
hatred for my friendship.
6
Appoint
A an evil man B to oppose him;
let
an accuser C stand at his right hand.
7
When
he is tried, let him be found guilty,
and
may his prayers condemn him.
8
May
his days be few;
may
another take his place of leadership.
9
May
his children be fatherless
and
his wife a widow.
10
May
his children be wandering beggars;
may
they be driven D from their ruined homes.
11
May
a creditor seize all he has;
may
strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
12
May
no one extend kindness to him
or
take pity on his fatherless children.
13
May
his descendants be cut off, [7]
their
names blotted out from the next generation.
14
May
the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD;
may
the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
15
May
their sins always remain before the LORD,
that
he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16
For
he never thought of doing a kindness,
but
hounded to death the poor
and
the needy and the brokenhearted.
17
He
loved to pronounce a curse--
may
it E come on him;
he
found no pleasure in blessing--
may
it be F far from him.
18
He
wore cursing as his garment;
it
entered into his body like water,
into
his bones like oil.
19
May
it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like
a belt tied forever around him.
20
May
this be the LORD's payment to my accusers,
to
those who speak evil of me.
21
But
you, O Sovereign LORD,
deal
well with me for your name's sake;
out
of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
22
For
I am poor and needy,
and
my heart is wounded within me.
23
I
fade away like an evening shadow;
I
am shaken off like a locust.
24
My
knees give way from fasting;
my
body is thin and gaunt.
25
I
am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when
they see me, they shake their heads. [8]
26
Help
me, O LORD my God;
save
me in accordance with your love.
27
Let
them know that it is your hand,
that
you, O LORD, have done it.
28
They
may curse, but you will bless;
when
they attack they will be put to shame,
but
your servant will rejoice.
29
My
accusers will be clothed with disgrace
and
wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
30
With
my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD;
in
the great throng I will praise him.
31
For
he stands at the right hand of the needy one,
to
save his life from those who condemn him. [9]
PSALMS: 139
For
the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1
O
LORD, you have searched me
and
you know me.
2
You
know when I sit and when I rise;
you
perceive my thoughts from afar.
3
You
discern my going out and my lying down;
you
are familiar with all my ways.
4
Before
a word is on my tongue
you
know it completely, O LORD.
5
You
hem me in--behind and before;
you
have laid your hand upon me.
6
Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too
lofty for me to attain.
7
Where
can I go from your Spirit?
Where
can I flee from your presence?
8
If
I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if
I make my bed in the depths, A you are there.
9
If
I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if
I settle on the far side of the sea,
10
even
there your hand will guide me,
your
right hand will hold me fast.
11
If
I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and
the light become night around me,"
12
even
the darkness will not be dark to you;
the
night will shine like the day,
for
darkness is as light to you. [10]
13
For
you created my inmost being;
you
knit me together in my mother's womb.
14
I
praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your
works are wonderful,
I
know that full well.
15
My
frame was not hidden from you
when
I was made in the secret place.
When
I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16
your
eyes saw my unformed body.
All
the days ordained for me
were
written in your book
before
one of them came to be.
17
How
precious to B me are your thoughts, O God!
How
vast is the sum of them!
18
Were
I to count them,
they
would outnumber the grains of sand.
When
I awake,
I
am still with you.
19
If
only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away
from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20
They
speak of you with evil intent;
your
adversaries misuse your name.
21
Do
I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and
abhor those who rise up against you?
22
I
have nothing but hatred for them;
I
count them my enemies.
23
Search
me, O God, and know my heart;
test
me and know my anxious thoughts.
24
See
if there is any offensive way in me,
and
lead me in the way everlasting. [11]
PROVERBS: 19
19
1
Better a poor man whose walk is blameless
than
a fool whose lips are perverse.
2
It
is not good to have zeal without knowledge,
nor
to be hasty and miss the way.
3
A
man's own folly ruins his life,
yet
his heart rages against the LORD.
4
Wealth
brings many friends,
but
a poor man's friend deserts him.
5
A
false witness will not go unpunished,
and
he who pours out lies will not go free.
6
Many
curry favor with a ruler,
and
everyone is the friend of a man who gives gifts.
7
A
poor man is shunned by all his relatives--
how
much more do his friends avoid him!
Though
he pursues them with pleading,
they
are nowhere to be found. A
8
He
who gets wisdom loves his own soul;
he
who cherishes understanding prospers.
9
A
false witness will not go unpunished,
and
he who pours out lies will perish.
10
It
is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury--
how
much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
11
A
man's wisdom gives him patience;
it
is to his glory to overlook an offense. [12]
12
A
king's rage is like the roar of a lion,
but
his favor is like dew on the grass.
13
A
foolish son is his father's ruin,
and
a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
14
Houses
and wealth are inherited from parents,
but
a prudent wife is from the LORD.
15
Laziness
brings on deep sleep,
and
the shiftless man goes hungry.
16
He
who obeys instructions guards his life,
but
he who is contemptuous of his ways will die.
17
He
who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD,
and
he will reward him for what he has done.
18
Discipline
your son, for in that there is hope;
do
not be a willing party to his death.
19
A
hot-tempered man must pay the penalty;
if
you rescue him, you will have to do it again.
20
Listen
to advice and accept instruction,
and
in the end you will be wise.
21
Many
are the plans in a man's heart,
but
it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
22
What
a man desires is unfailing love B;
better
to be poor than a liar. [13]
23
The
fear of the LORD leads to life:
Then
one rests content, untouched by trouble.
24
The
sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he
will not even bring it back to his mouth!
25
Flog
a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;
rebuke
a discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.
26
He
who robs his father and drives out his mother
is
a son who brings shame and disgrace.
27
Stop
listening to instruction, my son,
and
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
28
A
corrupt witness mocks at justice,
and
the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
29
Penalties
are prepared for mockers,
and
beatings for the backs of fools. [14]
OLD
TESTAMENT: GENESIS 18:16 - 19:38
16
When
the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along
with them to see them on their way. 17 Then the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
18 Abraham
will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be
blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children
and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right
and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised
him."
20
Then
the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah
is so great and their sin so grievous 21
that I will go down and see if what they
have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
22 The
men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the
LORD.
E 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away
the righteous with the wicked? 24
What if there are fifty righteous people
in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare
F the place for the sake of the
fifty righteous people in it? 25
Far be it from you to do such a thing--to
kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike.
Far be it from you! Will not the Judge G of all the earth do right?"
26
The
LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the
city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
27 Then
Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord,
though I am nothing but dust and ashes,
28 what if
the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole
city because of five people?"
"If I find forty-five there," he said, "I will not destroy it."
29
Once
again he spoke to him, "What if only forty are found
there?"
He
said, "For the sake of forty, I will not do
it."
30
Then
he said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak.
What if only thirty can be found there?"
He
answered, "I will not do it if I find thirty
there."
31
Abraham
said, "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty
can be found there?"
He
said, "For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it."
32
Then
he said, "May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak
just once more. What if only ten can be found there?"
He
answered, "For the sake of ten, I will not destroy
it."
33
When
the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
[15]
19
1
The
two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway
of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his
face to the ground. 2 "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your
servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your
way early in the morning."
"No,"
they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."
3
But
he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He
prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4
Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of
Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house. 5 They called to
Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we
can have sex with them."
6
Lot
went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said,
"No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two
daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you
can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they
have come under the protection of my roof."
9
"Get
out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an
alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them."
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10
But
the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young
and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12
The
two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here--sons-in-law, sons or
daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
13
because
we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is
so great that he has sent us to destroy it."
14
So
Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry
A his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because
the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was
joking.
15
With
the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and
your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is
punished."
16
When
he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two
daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to
them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said,
"Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain!
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!"
18
But
Lot said to them, "No, my lords, B please! 19 Your
C servant has found favor in your D eyes, and you
E have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't
flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die. 20
Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee
to it--it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared." [16]
21
He
said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the
town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do
anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar.
F)
23
By
the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24Then
the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of
the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain,
including all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land.
26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27
Early
the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood
before the LORD. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward
all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like
smoke from a furnace.
29
So
when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he
brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had
lived.
30
Lot
and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid
to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day
the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man
around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. 32
Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our
family line through our father."
33
That
night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and
lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
34
The
next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my
father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with
him so we can preserve our family line through our father." 35 So
they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter
went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when
she got up.
36
So
both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older
daughter had a son, and she named him Moab G; he is the father of the
Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she
named him Ben-Ammi H; he is the father of the Ammonites of today. [17]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 6:25 -
7:14
25
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you
will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26 Look at
the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than
they? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life
B?
28
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of
the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was
dressed like one of these. 30
If that is how God clothes the grass of
the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not
much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry,
saying, `What shall we eat?' or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we
wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly
Father knows that you need them. 33
But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its
own.
7
1
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way
you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be
measured to you.
3
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's
eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to
your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there
is a plank in your own eye? 5
You hypocrite, first take the plank out
of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye.
6
"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to
pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear
you to pieces.
7
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who
asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be
opened.
9
"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a
stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
11 If you,
then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask
him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do
to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. [18]
13
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and
broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
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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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