Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER
23
PSALMS: 23,
53, 83, 113, 143
PROVERBS: 23
OLD
TESTAMENT: EXODUS 34:1 - 35:9
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 27:15 -
51
PSALMS: 23
A
psalm of David.
1
The
LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2
He
makes me lie down in green pastures,
he
leads me beside quiet waters,
3
he
restores my soul.
He
guides me in paths of righteousness
for
his name's sake.
4
Even
though I walk
through
the valley of the shadow of death, A
I
will fear no evil,
for
you are with me;
your
rod and your staff,
they
comfort me.
5
You
prepare a table before me
in
the presence of my enemies.
You
anoint my head with oil;
my
cup overflows.
6
Surely
goodness and love will follow me
all
the days of my life,
and
I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
[1]
PSALMS: 53
For
the director of music. According to mahalath. A A maskil
B of David.
1
The
fool says in his heart,
"There
is no God."
They
are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
there
is no one who does good.
2
God
looks down from heaven
on
the sons of men
to
see if there are any who understand,
any
who seek God.
3
Everyone
has turned away,
they
have together become corrupt;
there
is no one who does good,
not
even one.
4
Will
the evildoers never learn--
those
who devour my people as men eat bread
and
who do not call on God?
5
There
they were, overwhelmed with dread,
where
there was nothing to dread.
God
scattered the bones of those who attacked you;
you
put them to shame, for God despised them.
6
Oh,
that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When
God restores the fortunes of his people,
let
Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad! [2]
PSALMS: 83
A
song. A psalm of Asaph.
1
O
God, do not keep silent;
be
not quiet, O God, be not still.
2
See
how your enemies are astir,
how
your foes rear their heads.
3
With
cunning they conspire against your people;
they
plot against those you cherish.
4
"Come,"
they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
that
the name of Israel be remembered no more."
5
With
one mind they plot together;
they
form an alliance against you--
6
the
tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of
Moab and the Hagrites,
7
Gebal,
A Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia,
with the people of Tyre.
8
Even
Assyria has joined them
to
lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah
9
Do
to them as you did to Midian,
as
you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10
who
perished at Endor
and
became like refuse on the ground.
11
Make
their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all
their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12
who
said, "Let us take possession
of
the pasturelands of God." [3]
13
Make
them like tumbleweed, O my God,
like
chaff before the wind.
14
As
fire consumes the forest
or
a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15
so
pursue them with your tempest
and
terrify them with your storm.
16
Cover
their faces with shame
so
that men will seek your name, O LORD.
17
May
they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may
they perish in disgrace.
18
Let
them know that you, whose name is the LORD--
that
you alone are the Most High over all the earth. [4]
PSALMS: 113
1
Praise
the LORD. A
Praise,
O servants of the LORD,
praise
the name of the LORD.
2
Let
the name of the LORD be praised,
both
now and forevermore.
3
From
the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the
name of the LORD is to be praised.
4
The
LORD is exalted over all the nations,
his
glory above the heavens.
5
Who
is like the LORD our God,
the
One who sits enthroned on high,
6
who
stoops down to look
on
the heavens and the earth?
7
He
raises the poor from the dust
and
lifts the needy from the ash heap;
8
he
seats them with princes,
with
the princes of their people.
9
He
settles the barren woman in her home
as
a happy mother of children.
Praise
the LORD. [5]
PSALMS: 143
A
psalm of David.
1
O
LORD, hear my prayer,
listen
to my cry for mercy;
in
your faithfulness and righteousness
come
to my relief.
2
Do
not bring your servant into judgment,
for
no one living is righteous before you.
3
The
enemy pursues me,
he
crushes me to the ground;
he
makes me dwell in darkness
like
those long dead.
4
So
my spirit grows faint within me;
my
heart within me is dismayed.
5
I
remember the days of long ago;
I
meditate on all your works
and
consider what your hands have done.
6
I
spread out my hands to you;
my
soul thirsts for you like a parched land.
Selah
7
Answer
me quickly, O LORD;
my
spirit fails.
Do
not hide your face from me
or
I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8
Let
the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for
I have put my trust in you.
Show
me the way I should go,
for
to you I lift up my soul.
9
Rescue
me from my enemies, O LORD, [6]
for
I hide myself in you.
10
Teach
me to do your will,
for
you are my God;
may
your good Spirit
lead
me on level ground.
11
For
your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life;
in
your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12
In
your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy
all my foes,
for
I am your servant. [7]
PROVERBS: 23
23
1
When you sit to dine with a ruler,
note
well what A is before you,
2
and
put a knife to your throat
if
you are given to gluttony.
3
Do
not crave his delicacies,
for
that food is deceptive.
4
Do
not wear yourself out to get rich;
have
the wisdom to show restraint.
5
Cast
but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for
they will surely sprout wings
and
fly off to the sky like an eagle.
6
Do
not eat the food of a stingy man,
do
not crave his delicacies;
7
for
he is the kind of man
who
is always thinking about the cost. B
"Eat
and drink," he says to you,
but
his heart is not with you.
8
You
will vomit up the little you have eaten
and
will have wasted your compliments.
9
Do
not speak to a fool,
for
he will scorn the wisdom of your words.
10
Do
not move an ancient boundary stone
or
encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11
for
their Defender is strong;
he
will take up their case against you.
12
Apply
your heart to instruction
and
your ears to words of knowledge. [8]
13
Do
not withhold discipline from a child;
if
you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14
Punish
him with the rod
and
save his soul from death. C
15
My
son, if your heart is wise,
then
my heart will be glad;
16
my
inmost being will rejoice
when
your lips speak what is right.
17
Do
not let your heart envy sinners,
but
always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.
18
There
is surely a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
19
Listen,
my son, and be wise,
and
keep your heart on the right path.
20
Do
not join those who drink too much wine
or
gorge themselves on meat,
21
for
drunkards and gluttons become poor,
and
drowsiness clothes them in rags.
22
Listen
to your father, who gave you life,
and
do not despise your mother when she is old.
23
Buy
the truth and do not sell it;
get
wisdom, discipline and understanding.
24
The
father of a righteous man has great joy;
he
who has a wise son delights in him.
25
May
your father and mother be glad;
may
she who gave you birth rejoice! [9]
26
My
son, give me your heart
and
let your eyes keep to my ways,
27
for
a prostitute is a deep pit
and
a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28
Like
a bandit she lies in wait,
and
multiplies the unfaithful among men.
29
Who
has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who
has strife? Who has complaints?
Who
has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30
Those
who linger over wine,
who
go to sample bowls of mixed wine.
31
Do
not gaze at wine when it is red,
when
it sparkles in the cup,
when
it goes down smoothly!
32
In
the end it bites like a snake
and
poisons like a viper.
33
Your
eyes will see strange sights
and
your mind imagine confusing things.
34
You
will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
lying
on top of the rigging. [10]
OLD
TESTAMENT: EXODUS 34:1 - 35:9
34
1
The
LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like
the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first
tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready
in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on
top of the mountain. 3 No one is to
come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds
may graze in front of the mountain."
4
So
Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai
early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two
stone tablets in his hands. 5 Then the LORD came down in the cloud
and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. 6 And he
passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the
LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and
faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to
thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave
the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin
of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."
8
Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.
9 "O Lord, if I have found favor in your
eyes," he said, "then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked
people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your
inheritance."
10
Then
the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you.
Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all
the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I,
the LORD, will do for you. 11 Obey
what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the
land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
13 Break down their altars, smash their
sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. A
14 Do not worship any other god, for the
LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15
"Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the
land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them,
they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
16 And when you choose some of their
daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to
their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
17
"Do not make cast idols.
18
"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.
19
"The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including
all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb,
but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
"No
one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21
"Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall
rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest. [11]
22
"Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the
wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
B 23 Three times a year all your
men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
24 I will drive out nations before you and
enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three
times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
25
"Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with
anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover
Feast remain until morning.
26
"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."
27
Then
the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for
in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Israel." 28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty
nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the
words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments.
29
When
Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his
hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the
LORD. 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was
radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called
to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he
spoke to them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he
gave them all the commands the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
33
When
Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. 34 But
whenever he entered the LORD's presence to speak with him, he removed the veil
until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been
commanded,
35
they
saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face
until he went in to speak with the LORD.
35
1
Moses
assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, "These are the things
the LORD has commanded you to do: 2 For six days, work is to be done,
but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD.
Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. 3 Do not light a
fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
4
Moses
said to the whole Israelite community, "This is
what the LORD has commanded: 5 From what you have, take an offering for the LORD.
Everyone who is willing is to bring to the LORD an offering of gold, silver and
bronze; 6 blue, purple and
scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; 7 ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows
A; acacia wood; 8
olive oil for the light; spices for the
anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 9 and [12]
onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the
ephod and breastpiece. [13]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 27:15 -
51
15
Now
it was the governor's custom at the Feast to release a prisoner chosen by the
crowd. 16 At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called
Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them,
"Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called
Christ?" 18 For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus
over to him.
19
While
Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't
have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal
today in a dream because of him."
20
But
the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to
have Jesus executed.
21
"Which
of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor.
"Barabbas,"
they answered.
22
"What
shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?" Pilate asked.
They
all answered, "Crucify him!"
23
"Why?
What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But
they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
24
When
Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting,
he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this
man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!"
25
All
the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
26
Then
he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to
be crucified.
27
Then
the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole
company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a
scarlet robe on him, 29and then twisted together a crown of thorns
and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of
him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. 30 They spit
on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31
After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes
on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
32
As
they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced
him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a place called Golgotha
(which means The Place of the Skull). 34 There they offered Jesus
wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink [14]
it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by
casting lots. B 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over
him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against
him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 38 Two robbers were
crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39 Those
who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and
saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
41
In
the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked
him. 42 "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself!
He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will
believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he
wants him, for he said, `I am the Son of
God.'" 44 In the same way the robbers who were crucified with
him also heaped insults on him.
45
From
the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. 46
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, C
lama
sabachthani?"--which means, "My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" D
47
When
some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling Elijah."
48
Immediately
one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a
stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, "Now leave
him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."
50
And
when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51
At
that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The
earth shook and the rocks split. [15]
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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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