Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
NOVEMBER
7
PSALMS: 7,
37, 67, 97, 127
PROVERBS: 7
OLD
TESTAMENT: EXODUS 4:1 - 5:22
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 18:1 -
20
PSALMS:
7
A
shiggaion A of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning
Cush, a Benjamite.
1
O
LORD my God, I take refuge in you;
save
and deliver me from all who pursue me,
2
or
they will tear me like a lion
and
rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
3
O
LORD my God, if I have done this
and
there is guilt on my hands--
4
if
I have done evil to him who is at peace with me
or
without cause have robbed my foe--
5
then
let my enemy pursue and overtake me;
let
him trample my life to the ground
and
make me sleep in the dust.
Selah
6
Arise,
O LORD, in your anger;
rise
up against the rage of my enemies.
Awake,
my God; decree justice.
7
Let
the assembled peoples gather around you.
Rule
over them from on high;
8
let
the LORD judge the peoples.
Judge
me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,
according
to my integrity, O Most High.
9
O
righteous God,
who
searches minds and hearts,
bring
to an end the violence of the wicked
and
make the righteous secure. [1]
10
My
shield B is God Most High,
who
saves the upright in heart.
11
God
is a righteous judge,
a
God who expresses his wrath every day.
12
If
he does not relent,
he
C will sharpen his sword;
he
will bend and string his bow.
13
He
has prepared his deadly weapons;
he
makes ready his flaming arrows.
14
He
who is pregnant with evil
and
conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.
15
He
who digs a hole and scoops it out
falls
into the pit he has made.
16
The
trouble he causes recoils on himself;
his
violence comes down on his own head.
17
I
will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness
and
will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. [2]
PSALMS: 37
Of
David.
1
Do
A not fret because of evil men
or
be envious of those who do wrong;
2
for
like the grass they will soon wither,
like
green plants they will soon die away.
3
Trust
in the LORD and do good;
dwell
in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4
Delight
yourself in the LORD
and
he will give you the desires of your heart.
5
Commit
your way to the LORD;
trust
in him and he will do this:
6
He
will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the
justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
7
Be
still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do
not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when
they carry out their wicked schemes.
8
Refrain
from anger and turn from wrath;
do
not fret--it leads only to evil.
9
For
evil men will be cut off,
but
those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
10
A
little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though
you look for them, they will not be found.
11
But
the meek will inherit the land
and
enjoy great peace. [3]
12
The
wicked plot against the righteous
and
gnash their teeth at them;
13
but
the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for
he knows their day is coming.
14
The
wicked draw the sword
and
bend the bow
to
bring down the poor and needy,
to
slay those whose ways are upright.
15
But
their swords will pierce their own hearts,
and
their bows will be broken.
16
Better
the little that the righteous have
than
the wealth of many wicked;
17
for
the power of the wicked will be broken,
but
the LORD upholds the righteous.
18
The
days of the blameless are known to the LORD,
and
their inheritance will endure forever.
19
In
times of disaster they will not wither;
in
days of famine they will enjoy plenty.
20
But
the wicked will perish:
The
LORD's enemies will be like the beauty of the fields,
they
will vanish--vanish like smoke.
21
The
wicked borrow and do not repay,
but
the righteous give generously;
22
those
the LORD blesses will inherit the land,
but
those he curses will be cut off. [4]
23
If
the LORD delights in a man's way,
he
makes his steps firm;
24
though
he stumble, he will not fall,
for
the LORD upholds him with his hand.
25
I
was young and now I am old,
yet
I have never seen the righteous forsaken
or
their children begging bread.
26
They
are always generous and lend freely;
their
children will be blessed.
27
Turn
from evil and do good;
then
you will dwell in the land forever.
28
For
the LORD loves the just
and
will not forsake his faithful ones.
They
will be protected forever,
but
the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;
29
the
righteous will inherit the land
and
dwell in it forever.
30
The
mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom,
and
his tongue speaks what is just.
31
The
law of his God is in his heart;
his
feet do not slip.
32
The
wicked lie in wait for the righteous,
seeking
their very lives;
33
but
the LORD will not leave them in their power
or
let them be condemned when brought to trial. [5]
34
Wait
for the LORD
and
keep his way.
He
will exalt you to inherit the land;
when
the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
35
I
have seen a wicked and ruthless man
flourishing
like a green tree in its native soil,
36
but
he soon passed away and was no more;
though
I looked for him, he could not be found.
37
Consider
the blameless, observe the upright;
there
is a future B for the man of peace.
38
But
all sinners will be destroyed;
the
future C of the wicked will be cut off.
39
The
salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD;
he
is their stronghold in time of trouble.
40
The
LORD helps them and delivers them;
he
delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because
they take refuge in him. [6]
PSALMS: 67
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A
song.
1
May
God be gracious to us and bless us
and
make his face shine upon us,
Selah
2
that
your ways may be known on earth,
your
salvation among all nations.
3
May
the peoples praise you, O God;
may
all the peoples praise you.
4
May
the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for
you rule the peoples justly
and
guide the nations of the earth.
Selah
5
May
the peoples praise you, O God;
may
all the peoples praise you.
6
Then
the land will yield its harvest,
and
God, our God, will bless us.
7
God
will bless us,
and
all the ends of the earth will fear him. [7]
PSALMS: 97
1
The
LORD reigns, let the earth be glad;
let
the distant shores rejoice.
2
Clouds
and thick darkness surround him;
righteousness
and justice are the foundation of his throne.
3
Fire
goes before him
and
consumes his foes on every side.
4
His
lightning lights up the world;
the
earth sees and trembles.
5
The
mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before
the Lord of all the earth.
6
The
heavens proclaim his righteousness,
and
all the peoples see his glory.
7
All
who worship images are put to shame,
those
who boast in idols--
worship
him, all you gods!
8
Zion
hears and rejoices
and
the villages of Judah are glad
because
of your judgments, O LORD.
9
For
you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth;
you
are exalted far above all gods.
10
Let
those who love the LORD hate evil,
for
he guards the lives of his faithful ones
and
delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11
Light
is shed upon the righteous
and
joy on the upright in heart.
12
Rejoice
in the LORD, you who are righteous,
and
praise his holy name. [8]
PSALMS: 127
A
song of ascents. Of Solomon.
1
Unless
the LORD builds the house,
its
builders labor in vain.
Unless
the LORD watches over the city,
the
watchmen stand guard in vain.
2
In
vain you rise early
and
stay up late,
toiling
for food to eat--
for
he grants sleep to A those he loves.
3
Sons
are a heritage from the LORD,
children
a reward from him.
4
Like
arrows in the hands of a warrior
are
sons born in one's youth.
5
Blessed
is the man
whose
quiver is full of them.
They
will not be put to shame
when
they contend with their enemies in the gate. [9]
PROVERBS: 7
7
1
My son, keep my words
and
store up my commands within you.
2
Keep
my commands and you will live;
guard
my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3
Bind
them on your fingers;
write
them on the tablet of your heart.
4
Say
to wisdom, "You are my
sister,"
and
call understanding your kinsman;
5
they
will keep you from the adulteress,
from
the wayward wife with her seductive words.
6
At
the window of my house
I
looked out through the lattice.
7
I
saw among the simple,
I
noticed among the young men,
a
youth who lacked judgment.
8
He
was going down the street near her corner,
walking
along in the direction of her house
9
at
twilight, as the day was fading,
as
the dark of night set in.
10
Then
out came a woman to meet him,
dressed
like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
11
(She
is loud and defiant,
her
feet never stay at home;
12
now
in the street, now in the squares,
at
every corner she lurks.)
13
She
took hold of him and kissed him
and
with a brazen face she said:
14
"I
have fellowship offerings A at home;
today
I fulfilled my vows.
15
So
I came out to meet you; [10]
I
looked for you and have found you!
16
I
have covered my bed
with
colored linens from Egypt.
17
I
have perfumed my bed
with
myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
18
Come,
let's drink deep of love till morning;
let's
enjoy ourselves with love!
19
My
husband is not at home;
he
has gone on a long journey.
20
He
took his purse filled with money
and
will not be home till full moon."
21
With
persuasive words she led him astray;
she
seduced him with her smooth talk.
22
All
at once he followed her
like
an ox going to the slaughter,
like
a deer B stepping into a noose C
23
till an arrow pierces his liver,
like
a bird darting into a snare,
little
knowing it will cost him his life.
24
Now
then, my sons, listen to me;
pay
attention to what I say.
25
Do
not let your heart turn to her ways
or
stray into her paths.
26
Many
are the victims she has brought down;
her
slain are a mighty throng.
27
Her
house is a highway to the grave, D
leading
down to the chambers of death. [11]
OLD
TESTAMENT: EXODUS 4:1 - 5:22
4
1
Moses
answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, `The LORD did
not appear to you'?"
2
Then
the LORD said to him, "What is that in your
hand?"
"A
staff," he replied.
3
The
LORD said, "Throw it on the ground."
Moses
threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4
Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand
and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake
and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5 "This," said the LORD, "is
so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers--the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob--has appeared to you."
6
Then
the LORD said, "Put your hand inside your
cloak." So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, it
was leprous, A like snow.
7
"Now put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses
put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like
the rest of his flesh.
8
Then
the LORD said, "If they do not believe you or pay
attention to the first miraculous sign, they may believe the second.
9 But if they do not believe these
two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry
ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the
ground."
10
Moses
said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor
since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."
11
The
LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes
him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12 Now go; I will help you speak and
will teach you what to say."
13
But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."
14
Then
the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can
speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad
when he sees you. 15 You shall speak
to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach
you what to do. 16 He will speak to
the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were
God to him. 17 But take this staff
in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it."
18
Then
Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back to
my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive."
Jethro
said, "Go, and I wish you well."
19
Now
the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to
Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead." 20 So
Moses took his [12]wife
and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff
of God in his hand.
21
The
LORD said to Moses, "When you return to Egypt, see
that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to
do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
22 Then say to Pharaoh, `This is
what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I told you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But
you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.' "
24
At
a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses B and was about to
kill him.
25
But
Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet
with it. C "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said.
26 So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of
blood," referring to circumcision.)
27
The
LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet
Moses." So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28
Then Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and also
about all the miraculous signs he had commanded him to perform.
29
Moses
and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, 30 and
Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the
signs before the people, 31 and they believed. And when they heard
that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed
down and worshiped.
5
1
Afterward
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "This is
what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: `Let my people go, so that they may hold
a festival to me in the desert.' "
2
Pharaoh
said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know
the LORD and I will not let Israel go."
3
Then
they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day
journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, or he may
strike us with plagues or with the sword."
4
But
the king of Egypt said, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away
from their labor? Get back to your work!" 5 Then Pharaoh said, "Look,
the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from
working."
6
That
same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and foremen in charge of
the people: 7 "You are no longer to supply the people with straw for
making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. 8 But require
them to make the same number of bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They
are lazy; that is why they are crying out, `Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
9 Make the work harder for the men so that they keep working and pay
no attention to lies." [13]
10 Then the slave drivers and the foremen went out and said to the
people, "This is what Pharaoh says: `I will not give you any more straw. 11
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not
be reduced at all.'" 12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to
gather stubble to use for straw. 13 The slave drivers kept pressing
them, saying, "Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you
had straw."
14
The
Israelite foremen appointed by Pharaoh's slave drivers were beaten and were
asked, "Why didn't you meet your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?"
15
Then
the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: "Why have you treated your
servants this way? 16 Your servants are given no straw, yet we are
told, `Make bricks!' Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your
own people."
17
Pharaoh
said, "Lazy, that's what you are--lazy! That is why you keep saying, `Let us go
and sacrifice to the LORD.' 18 Now get to work. You will not be given
any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks."
19
The
Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, "You are
not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day." 20
When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,
21 and they said, "May the LORD look upon you and judge you! You have
made us a stench to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand
to kill us."
22
Moses
returned to the LORD and said, "O Lord, why have you brought trouble upon this
people? Is this why you sent me? 23 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to
speak in your name, he has brought trouble upon this people, and you have not
rescued your people at all." [14]
NEW
TESTAMENT: MATTHEW 18:1 -
20
18
1
At
that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven?"
2
He
called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said:
"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become
like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself
like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5
"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name
welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes
one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to
have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of
the sea.
7
"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to
sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
8 If your hand or your foot causes you to
sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or
crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal
fire. 9 And if your eye causes you
to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with
one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
10
"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.
For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in
heaven. A
12
"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of
them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look
for the one that wandered off? 13
And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep
than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that
any of these little ones should be lost.
15
"If your brother sins against you, B go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If
he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so
that `every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three
witnesses.' C 17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it
to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you
would a pagan or a tax collector.
18
"I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be
D bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be E loosed in heaven.
19
"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about
anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three come together in
my name, there am I with them." [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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