Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER
17
PSALMS: 17, 47, 77, 107,
137
PROVERBS: 17
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EXODUS 23:14 - 25:40
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 24:29 -
51
PSALMS: 17
A
prayer of David.
1
Hear,
O LORD, my righteous plea;
listen
to my cry.
Give
ear to my prayer--
it
does not rise from deceitful lips.
2
May
my vindication come from you;
may
your eyes see what is right.
3
Though
you probe my heart and examine me at night,
though
you test me, you will find nothing;
I
have resolved that my mouth will not sin.
4
As
for the deeds of men--
by
the word of your lips
I
have kept myself
from
the ways of the violent.
5
My
steps have held to your paths;
my
feet have not slipped.
6
I
call on you, O God, for you will answer me;
give
ear to me and hear my prayer.
7
Show
the wonder of your great love,
you
who save by your right hand
those
who take refuge in you from their foes.
8
Keep
me as the apple of your eye;
hide
me in the shadow of your wings
9
from
the wicked who assail me,
from
my mortal enemies who surround me. [1]
10
They
close up their callous hearts,
and
their mouths speak with arrogance.
11
They
have tracked me down, they now surround me,
with
eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.
12
They
are like a lion hungry for prey,
like
a great lion crouching in cover.
13
Rise
up, O LORD, confront them, bring them down;
rescue
me from the wicked by your sword.
14
O
LORD, by your hand save me from such men,
from
men of this world whose reward is in this life.
You
still the hunger of those you cherish;
their
sons have plenty,
and
they store up wealth for their children.
15
And
I--in righteousness I will see your face;
when
I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing
your
likeness. [2]
PSALMS: 47
For
the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.
1
Clap
your hands, all you nations;
shout
to God with cries of joy.
2
How
awesome is the LORD Most High,
the
great King over all the earth!
3
He
subdued nations under us,
peoples
under our feet.
4
He
chose our inheritance for us,
the
pride of Jacob, whom he loved.
Selah
5
God
has ascended amid shouts of joy,
the
LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.
6
Sing
praises to God, sing praises;
sing
praises to our King, sing praises.
7
For
God is the King of all the earth;
sing
to him a psalm A of praise.
8
God
reigns over the nations;
God
is seated on his holy throne.
9
The
nobles of the nations assemble
as
the people of the God of Abraham,
for
the kings B of the earth belong to God;
he
is greatly exalted. [3]
PSALMS: 77
For
the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.
1
I
cried out to God for help;
I
cried out to God to hear me.
2
When
I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at
night I stretched out untiring hands
and
my soul refused to be comforted.
3
I
remembered you, O God, and I groaned;
I
mused, and my spirit grew faint.
Selah
4
You
kept my eyes from closing;
I
was too troubled to speak.
5
I
thought about the former days,
the
years of long ago;
6
I
remembered my songs in the night.
My
heart mused and my spirit inquired:
7
"Will
the Lord reject forever?
Will
he never show his favor again?
8
Has
his unfailing love vanished forever?
Has
his promise failed for all time?
9
Has
God forgotten to be merciful?
Has
he in anger withheld his compassion?"
Selah
[4]
10
Then
I thought, "To this I will appeal:
the
years of the right hand of the Most High."
11
I
will remember the deeds of the LORD;
yes,
I will remember your miracles of long ago.
12
I
will meditate on all your works
and
consider all your mighty deeds.
13
Your
ways, O God, are holy.
What
god is so great as our God?
14
You
are the God who performs miracles;
you
display your power among the peoples.
15
With
your mighty arm you redeemed your people,
the
descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah
16
The
waters saw you, O God,
the
waters saw you and writhed;
the
very depths were convulsed.
17
The
clouds poured down water,
the
skies resounded with thunder;
your
arrows flashed back and forth.
18
Your
thunder was heard in the whirlwind,
your
lightning lit up the world;
the
earth trembled and quaked.
19
Your
path led through the sea,
your
way through the mighty waters,
though
your footprints were not seen.
20
You
led your people like a flock
by
the hand of Moses and Aaron. [5]
PSALMS:
107
1
Give
thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his
love endures forever.
2
Let
the redeemed of the LORD say this--
those
he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
3
those
he gathered from the lands,
from
east and west, from north and south. A
4
Some
wandered in desert wastelands,
finding
no way to a city where they could settle.
5
They
were hungry and thirsty,
and
their lives ebbed away.
6
Then
they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
and
he delivered them from their distress.
7
He
led them by a straight way
to
a city where they could settle.
8
Let
them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love
and
his wonderful deeds for men,
9
for
he satisfies the thirsty
and
fills the hungry with good things.
10
Some
sat in darkness and the deepest gloom,
prisoners
suffering in iron chains,
11
for
they had rebelled against the words of God
and
despised the counsel of the Most High.
12
So
he subjected them to bitter labor;
they
stumbled, and there was no one to help.
13
Then
they cried to the LORD in their trouble,
and
he saved them from their distress.
14
He
brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom
and
broke away their chains.
15
Let
them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love
and
his wonderful deeds for men,
16
for
he breaks down gates of bronze
and
cuts through bars of iron. [6]
17
Some
became fools through their rebellious ways
and
suffered affliction because of their iniquities.
18
They
loathed all food
and
drew near the gates of death.
19
Then
they cried to the LORD in their trouble,
and
he saved them from their distress.
20
He
sent forth his word and healed them;
he
rescued them from the grave.
21
Let
them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love
and
his wonderful deeds for men.
22
Let
them sacrifice thank offerings
and
tell of his works with songs of joy.
23
Others
went out on the sea in ships;
they
were merchants on the mighty waters.
24
They
saw the works of the LORD,
his
wonderful deeds in the deep.
25
For
he spoke and stirred up a tempest
that
lifted high the waves.
26
They
mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;
in
their peril their courage melted away.
27
They
reeled and staggered like drunken men;
they
were at their wits' end.
28
Then
they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
and
he brought them out of their distress.
29
He
stilled the storm to a whisper;
the
waves of the sea were hushed.
30
They
were glad when it grew calm,
and
he guided them to their desired haven.
31
Let
them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love
and
his wonderful deeds for men.
32
Let
them exalt him in the assembly of the people [7]
and
praise him in the council of the elders.
33
He
turned rivers into a desert,
flowing
springs into thirsty ground,
34
and
fruitful land into a salt waste,
because
of the wickedness of those who lived there.
35
He
turned the desert into pools of water
and
the parched ground into flowing springs;
36
there
he brought the hungry to live,
and
they founded a city where they could settle.
37
They
sowed fields and planted vineyards
that
yielded a fruitful harvest;
38
he
blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased,
and
he did not let their herds diminish.
39
Then
their numbers decreased, and they were humbled
by
oppression, calamity and sorrow;
40
he
who pours contempt on nobles
made
them wander in a trackless waste.
41
But
he lifted the needy out of their affliction
and
increased their families like flocks.
42
The
upright see and rejoice,
but
all the wicked shut their mouths.
43
Whoever
is wise, let him heed these things
and
consider the great love of the LORD. [8]
PSALMS:
137
1
By
the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when
we remembered Zion.
2
There
on the poplars
we
hung our harps,
3
for
there our captors asked us for songs,
our
tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they
said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
4
How
can we sing the songs of the LORD
while
in a foreign land?
5
If
I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may
my right hand forget its skill.
6
May
my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if
I do not remember you,
if
I do not consider Jerusalem
my
highest joy.
7
Remember,
O LORD, what the Edomites did
on
the day Jerusalem fell.
"Tear
it down," they cried,
"tear
it down to its foundations!"
8
O
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy
is he who repays you
for
what you have done to us--
9
he
who seizes your infants
and
dashes them against the rocks. [9]
PROVERBS: 17
17
1
Better a dry crust with peace and quiet
than
a house full of feasting, A with strife.
2
A
wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son,
and
will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
3
The
crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
but
the LORD tests the heart.
4
A
wicked man listens to evil lips;
a
liar pays attention to a malicious tongue.
5
He
who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker;
whoever
gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
6
Children's
children are a crown to the aged,
and
parents are the pride of their children.
7
Arrogant
B lips are unsuited to a fool--
how
much worse lying lips to a ruler!
8
A
bribe is a charm to the one who gives it;
wherever
he turns, he succeeds.
9
He
who covers over an offense promotes love,
but
whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
10
A
rebuke impresses a man of discernment
more
than a hundred lashes a fool.
11
An
evil man is bent only on rebellion;
a
merciless official will be sent against him. [10]
12
Better
to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than
a fool in his folly.
13
If
a man pays back evil for good,
evil
will never leave his house.
14
Starting
a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so
drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
15
Acquitting
the guilty and condemning the innocent--
the
LORD detests them both.
16
Of
what use is money in the hand of a fool,
since
he has no desire to get wisdom?
17
A
friend loves at all times,
and
a brother is born for adversity.
18
A
man lacking in judgment strikes hands in pledge
and
puts up security for his neighbor.
19
He
who loves a quarrel loves sin;
he
who builds a high gate invites destruction.
20
A
man of perverse heart does not prosper;
he
whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
21
To
have a fool for a son brings grief;
there
is no joy for the father of a fool. [11]
22
A
cheerful heart is good medicine,
but
a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
23
A
wicked man accepts a bribe in secret
to
pervert the course of justice.
24
A
discerning man keeps wisdom in view,
but
a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
25
A
foolish son brings grief to his father
and
bitterness to the one who bore him.
26
It
is not good to punish an innocent man,
or
to flog officials for their integrity.
27
A
man of knowledge uses words with restraint,
and
a man of understanding is even-tempered.
28
Even
a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent,
and
discerning if he holds his tongue. [12]
OLD
TESTAMENT: EXODUS 23:14 - 25:40
14
"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15
"Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat
bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in
the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
"No
one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16
"Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the
crops you sow in your field.
"Celebrate
the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops
from the field.
17
"Three times a year all the men are to appear before the
Sovereign LORD.
18
"Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with
anything containing yeast.
"The
fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
19
"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house
of the LORD your God.
"Do
not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
20
"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along
the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. 21
Pay attention to him and listen to what he says.
Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is
in him. 22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I
say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
23 My angel will go ahead of you and
bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites,
Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. 24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow
their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.
25 Worship
the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take
away sickness from among you, 26 and
none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
27
"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion
every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and
run. 28 I will send the hornet ahead
of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
29 But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the
land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
30 Little by little I will drive
them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the
land.
31 "I
will establish your borders from the Red Sea A
to the Sea of the Philistines, B
and from the desert to the River. C
I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them
out before you. 32 Do
not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
33 Do
not let them live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me,
because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you."
[13]
4
1
Then
he said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron,
Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a
distance, 2 but Moses alone is to
approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up
with him."
3
When
Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, they responded
with one voice, "Everything the LORD has said we will do." 4 Moses
then wrote down everything the LORD had said.
He
got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and
set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel. 5
Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and
sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings A to the LORD. 6
Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he
sprinkled on the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and
read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything the LORD has said;
we will obey."
8
Moses
then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of
the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these
words."
9
Moses
and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up 10
and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement
made of sapphire, B clear as the sky itself. 11 But God
did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God,
and they ate and drank.
12The
LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and
stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I
have written for their instruction."
13
Then
Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we come back to
you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to
them."
15
When
Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, 16 and the glory
of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain,
and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud. 17
To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on
top of the mountain. 18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up
the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty
nights.
25
1
The
LORD said to Moses, 2 "Tell the Israelites
to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man
whose heart prompts him to give. 3
These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and
fine linen; goat hair; 5 ram skins
dyed red and hides of sea cows A;
acacia wood; 6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and
for the [14] fragrant incense; 7
and onyx stones and other gems to be
mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
8
"Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell
among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like
the pattern I will show you.
10
"Have them make a chest of acacia wood--two and a half cubits
long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. B
11 Overlay
it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four
feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 13 Then make poles of
acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14
Insert the poles into the rings on the
sides of the chest to carry it. 15
The poles are to remain in the rings of
this ark; they are not to be removed.
16 Then
put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
17
"Make an atonement cover C of pure gold--two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a
half wide. D 18
And make two cherubim out of hammered
gold at the ends of the cover. 19
Make one cherub on one end and the second
cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two
ends. 20 The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward,
overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking
toward the cover. 21 Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the
Testimony, which I will give you. 22
There, above the cover between the two
cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony, I will meet with you and give
you all my commands for the Israelites.
23
"Make a table of acacia wood--two cubits long, a cubit wide
and a cubit and a half high. E 24 Overlay it with pure
gold and make a gold molding around it. 25
Also make around it a rim a handbreadth
F wide and put a gold molding on the
rim. 26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the
four corners, where the four legs are.
27
The
rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
28
Make
the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
29
And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls
for the pouring out of offerings.
30 Put the
bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
31
"Make a lampstand of pure gold and hammer it out, base and
shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms shall be of one piece with
it. 32 Six branches are to extend
from the sides of the lampstand--three on one side and three on the
other. 33 Three cups shaped like
almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next
branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
34
And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with
buds and blossoms.
35 One bud
shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second
bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair--six branches in
all. 36 The buds and branches shall
all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold. [15]
37
"Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they
light the space in front of it. 38
Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of
pure gold. 39 A talent G of
pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.
40 See that you make them according to the
pattern shown you on the mountain. [16]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 24:29 -
51
29
"Immediately after the distress of those days
"`the
sun will be darkened,
and
the moon will not give its light;
the
stars will fall from the sky,
and
the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
C
30"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the
sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man
coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his
angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four
winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
32
"Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its
twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.
33 Even
so, when you see all these things, you know that it D
is near, right at the door.
34 I tell
you the truth, this generation E
will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
35 Heaven
and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
36
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in
heaven, nor the Son, F but only the
Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming
of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the
ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the
flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the
Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the
other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be
taken and the other left.
42
"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day
your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at
what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not
have let his house be broken into.
44 So
you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do
not expect him.
45
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master
has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at
the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him
doing so when he returns. 47
I tell you the truth, he will put him in
charge of all his possessions. 48
But suppose that servant is wicked and
says to himself, `My master is staying away a long time,' 49 and he then begins
to [17] beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with
drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does
not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the
hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. [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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