Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER
5
PSALMS: 5
PROVERBS: 5, 35, 65, 95,
125
OLD
TESTAMENT: GENESIS 50:1 - EXODUS
2:10
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 16:13 -
17:9
PSALMS:
5
For
the director of music. For flutes. A psalm of David.
1
Give
ear to my words, O LORD,
consider
my sighing.
2
Listen
to my cry for help,
my
King and my God,
for
to you I pray.
3
In
the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice;
in
the morning I lay my requests before you
and
wait in expectation.
4
You
are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;
with
you the wicked cannot dwell.
5
The
arrogant cannot stand in your presence;
you
hate all who do wrong.
6
You
destroy those who tell lies;
bloodthirsty
and deceitful men
the
LORD abhors.
7
But
I, by your great mercy,
will
come into your house;
in
reverence will I bow down
toward
your holy temple.
8
Lead
me, O LORD, in your righteousness
because
of my enemies--
make
straight your way before me. [1]
9
Not
a word from their mouth can be trusted;
their
heart is filled with destruction.
Their
throat is an open grave;
with
their tongue they speak deceit.
10
Declare
them guilty, O God!
Let
their intrigues be their downfall.
Banish
them for their many sins,
for
they have rebelled against you.
11
But
let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let
them ever sing for joy.
Spread
your protection over them,
that
those who love your name may rejoice in you.
12
For
surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous;
you
surround them with your favor as with a shield. [2]
PSALMS: 35
Of
David.
1
Contend,
O LORD, with those who contend with me;
fight
against those who fight against me.
2
Take
up shield and buckler;
arise
and come to my aid.
3
Brandish
spear and javelin A
against
those who pursue me.
Say
to my soul,
"I am your salvation."
4
May
those who seek my life
be
disgraced and put to shame;
may
those who plot my ruin
be
turned back in dismay.
5
May
they be like chaff before the wind,
with
the angel of the LORD driving them away;
6
may
their path be dark and slippery,
with
the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
7
Since
they hid their net for me without cause
and
without cause dug a pit for me,
8
may
ruin overtake them by surprise--
may
the net they hid entangle them,
may
they fall into the pit, to their ruin.
9
Then
my soul will rejoice in the LORD
and
delight in his salvation.
10
My
whole being will exclaim,
"Who
is like you, O LORD?
You
rescue the poor from those too strong for them,
the
poor and needy from those who rob them." [3]
11
Ruthless
witnesses come forward;
they
question me on things I know nothing about.
12
They
repay me evil for good
and
leave my soul forlorn.
13
Yet
when they were ill, I put on sackcloth
and
humbled myself with fasting.
When
my prayers returned to me unanswered,
14
I
went about mourning
as
though for my friend or brother.
I
bowed my head in grief
as
though weeping for my mother.
15
But
when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
attackers
gathered against me when I was unaware.
They
slandered me without ceasing.
16
Like
the ungodly they maliciously mocked B;
they
gnashed their teeth at me.
17
O
Lord, how long will you look on?
Rescue
my life from their ravages,
my
precious life from these lions.
18
I
will give you thanks in the great assembly;
among
throngs of people I will praise you.
19
Let
not those gloat over me
who
are my enemies without cause;
let
not those who hate me without reason
maliciously
wink the eye.
20
They
do not speak peaceably,
but
devise false accusations
against
those who live quietly in the land.
21
They
gape at me and say, "Aha! Aha!
With
our own eyes we have seen it." [4]
22
O
LORD, you have seen this; be not silent.
Do
not be far from me, O Lord.
23
Awake,
and rise to my defense!
Contend
for me, my God and Lord.
24
Vindicate
me in your righteousness, O LORD my God;
do
not let them gloat over me.
25
Do
not let them think, "Aha, just what we wanted!"
or
say, "We have swallowed him up."
26
May
all who gloat over my distress
be
put to shame and confusion;
may
all who exalt themselves over me
be
clothed with shame and disgrace.
27
May
those who delight in my vindication
shout
for joy and gladness;
may
they always say, "The LORD be exalted,
who
delights in the well-being of his servant."
28
My
tongue will speak of your righteousness
and
of your praises all day long. [5]
PSALMS: 65
For
the director of music. A psalm of David. A song.
1
Praise
awaits A you, O God, in Zion;
to
you our vows will be fulfilled.
2
O
you who hear prayer,
to
you all men will come.
3
When
we were overwhelmed by sins,
you
forgave B our transgressions.
4
Blessed
are those you choose
and
bring near to live in your courts!
We
are filled with the good things of your house,
of
your holy temple.
5
You
answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,
O
God our Savior,
the
hope of all the ends of the earth
and
of the farthest seas,
6
who
formed the mountains by your power,
having
armed yourself with strength,
7
who
stilled the roaring of the seas,
the
roaring of their waves,
and
the turmoil of the nations.
8
Those
living far away fear your wonders;
where
morning dawns and evening fades
you
call forth songs of joy.
9
You
care for the land and water it;
you
enrich it abundantly.
The
streams of God are filled with water
to
provide the people with grain, [6]
for
so you have ordained it. C
10
You
drench its furrows
and
level its ridges;
you
soften it with showers
and
bless its crops.
11
You
crown the year with your bounty,
and
your carts overflow with abundance.
12
The
grasslands of the desert overflow;
the
hills are clothed with gladness.
13
The
meadows are covered with flocks
and
the valleys are mantled with grain;
they
shout for joy and sing. [7]
PSALMS: 95
1
Come,
let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let
us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2
Let
us come before him with thanksgiving
and
extol him with music and song.
3
For
the LORD is the great God,
the
great King above all gods.
4
In
his hand are the depths of the earth,
and
the mountain peaks belong to him.
5
The
sea is his, for he made it,
and
his hands formed the dry land.
6
Come,
let us bow down in worship,
let
us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7
for
he is our God
and
we are the people of his pasture,
the
flock under his care.
Today,
if you hear his voice,
8
do
not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, A
as
you did that day at Massah B in the desert,
9
where
your fathers tested and tried me,
though
they had seen what I did.
10
For
forty years I was angry with that generation;
I
said, "They are a people whose hearts go
astray,
and
they have not known my ways."
11
So
I declared on oath in my anger,
"They shall never enter my rest." [8]
PSALMS: 125
A
song of ascents.
1
Those
who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which
cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2
As
the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so
the LORD surrounds his people
both
now and forevermore.
3
The
scepter of the wicked will not remain
over
the land allotted to the righteous,
for
then the righteous might use
their
hands to do evil.
4
Do
good, O LORD, to those who are good,
to
those who are upright in heart.
5
But
those who turn to crooked ways
the
LORD will banish with the evildoers.
Peace
be upon Israel. [9]
PROVERBS: 5
5
1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom,
listen
well to my words of insight,
2
that
you may maintain discretion
and
your lips may preserve knowledge.
3
For
the lips of an adulteress drip honey,
and
her speech is smoother than oil;
4
but
in the end she is bitter as gall,
sharp
as a double-edged sword.
5
Her
feet go down to death;
her
steps lead straight to the grave. A
6
She
gives no thought to the way of life;
her
paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
7
Now
then, my sons, listen to me;
do
not turn aside from what I say.
8
Keep
to a path far from her,
do
not go near the door of her house,
9
lest
you give your best strength to others
and
your years to one who is cruel,
10
lest
strangers feast on your wealth
and
your toil enrich another man's house.
11
At
the end of your life you will groan,
when
your flesh and body are spent.
12
You
will say, "How I hated discipline!
How
my heart spurned correction!
13
I
would not obey my teachers
or
listen to my instructors.
14
I
have come to the brink of utter ruin
in
the midst of the whole assembly."
15
Drink
water from your own cistern,
running
water from your own well.
16
Should
your springs overflow in the streets,
your
streams of water in the public squares?
17
Let
them be yours alone, [10]
never
to be shared with strangers.
18
May
your fountain be blessed,
and
may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19
A
loving doe, a graceful deer--
may
her breasts satisfy you always,
may
you ever be captivated by her love.
20
Why
be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why
embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
21
For
a man's ways are in full view of the LORD,
and
he examines all his paths.
22
The
evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him;
the
cords of his sin hold him fast.
23
He
will die for lack of discipline,
led
astray by his own great folly. [11]
OLD
TESTAMENT: GENESIS 50:1 - EXODUS
2:10
50
1
Joseph
threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2
Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father
Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3 taking a full forty days,
for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him
seventy days.
4
When
the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, "If I have
found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, 5 `My
father made me swear an oath and said, "I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I
dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now let me go up and bury my father; then
I will return.' "
6
Pharaoh
said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do."
7
So
Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him--the
dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—8 besides
all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to
his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left
in Goshen. 9Chariots and horsemen A also went up with him.
It was a very large company.
10
When
they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly
and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his
father. 11 When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at
the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "The Egyptians are holding a solemn
ceremony of mourning." That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel
Mizraim. B
12
So
Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them: 13 They carried him to the
land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre,
which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with
the field.
14
After
burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all
the others who had gone with him to bury his father.
15
When
Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph
holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?"
16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father left these
instructions before he died: 17 `This is what you are to say to
Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they
committed in treating you so badly.' Now please forgive the sins of the servants
of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
18
His
brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. "We are your slaves,"
they said.
19
But
Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what
is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21 So then, don't be
afraid. I will provide for you and your children." And he reassured them and
spoke kindly to them.
22
Joseph
stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten
years 23 and saw the third generation of Ephraim's [12]
children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on
Joseph's knees. C
24
Then
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to
your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." 25 And Joseph made the sons of Israel
swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must
carry my bones up from this place."
26
So
Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was
placed in a coffin in Egypt.[13]
1
1
These
are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his
family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar,
Zebulun and Benjamin;
4
Dan
and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered
seventyA in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6
Now
Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the
Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous,
so that the land was filled with them.
8
Then
a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9
"Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too
numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they
will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies,
fight against us and leave the country."
11
So
they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they
built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more
they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came
to dread the Israelites
13
and
worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with hard
labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their
hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
15
The
king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
16 "When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on
the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her
live." 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the
king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then
the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this?
Why have you let the boys live?"
19
The
midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are
vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
20
So
God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more
numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them
families of their own.
22
Then
Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born B
you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
2
1
Now
a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became
pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid
him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she
got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. [14]
Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the
Nile. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to
him.
5
Then
Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were
walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her
slave girl to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was
crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she
said.
7
Then
his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women
to nurse the baby for you?"
8
"Yes,
go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother. 9
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and
I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When
the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son.
She named him Moses, A saying, "I drew him out of the water." [15]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 16:13 -
17:9
13
When
Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"
14
They
replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others,
Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
15
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"
16
Simon
Peter answered, "You are the Christ, B the Son of the living God."
17
Jesus
replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for
this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.
18 And I tell you that you are
Peter, C and on this rock I will
build my church, and the gates of Hades D will not overcome it. E 19 I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be
F bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be G loosed in
heaven." 20 Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone
that he was the Christ.
21
From
that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to
Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and
teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised
to life.
22
Peter
took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall
never happen to you!"
23
Jesus
turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You
are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the
things of men."
24
Then
Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come
after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
25 For whoever wants to save his
lifeH will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
26 What good will it be for a man if
he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in
exchange for his soul? 27 For the
Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he
will reward each person according to what he has done. 28 I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not
taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
17
1
After
six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led
them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured
before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the
light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah,
talking with Jesus.
4
Peter
said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up
three shelters--one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." [16]
5
While
he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud
said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well
pleased. Listen to him!"
6
When
the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. 7
But Jesus came and touched them. "Get
up," he said. "Don't be afraid."
8When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
9
As
they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, "Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man
has been raised from the dead." [17]
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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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