Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JANUARY
24
PSALMS: 24, 54, 84, 114,
144
PROVERBS: 24
OLD
TESTAMENT: JOSHUA 11:1 - 12:24
NEW
TESTAMENT: LUKE 17:11 - 37
PSALMS: 24
Of
David. A psalm.
1
The
earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,
the
world, and all who live in it;
2
for
he founded it upon the seas
and
established it upon the waters.
3
Who
may ascend the hill of the LORD?
Who
may stand in his holy place?
4
He
who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who
does not lift up his soul to an idol
or
swear by what is false. A
5
He
will receive blessing from the LORD
and
vindication from God his Savior.
6
Such
is the generation of those who seek him,
who
seek your face, O God of Jacob. B
Selah
7
Lift
up your heads, O you gates;
be
lifted up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
8
Who
is this King of glory?
The
LORD strong and mighty,
the
LORD mighty in battle.
9
Lift
up your heads, O you gates;
lift
them up, you ancient doors,
that
the King of glory may come in.
10
Who
is he, this King of glory?
The
LORD Almighty--
he
is the King of glory. [1]
Selah
[2]
PSALMS: 54
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil A
of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, "Is not David hiding
among us?"
1
Save
me, O God, by your name;
vindicate
me by your might.
2
Hear
my prayer, O God;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
3
Strangers
are attacking me;
ruthless
men seek my life--
men
without regard for God.
Selah
4
Surely
God is my help;
the
Lord is the one who sustains me.
5
Let
evil recoil on those who slander me;
in
your faithfulness destroy them.
6
I
will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I
will praise your name, O LORD,
for
it is good.
7
For
he has delivered me from all my troubles,
and
my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes. [3]
PSALMS: 84
For
the director of music. According to gittith. A Of the Sons of
Korah. A psalm.
1
How
lovely is your dwelling place,
O
LORD Almighty!
2
My
soul yearns, even faints,
for
the courts of the LORD;
my
heart and my flesh cry out
for
the living God.
3
Even
the sparrow has found a home,
and
the swallow a nest for herself,
where
she may have her young--
a
place near your altar,
O
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4
Blessed
are those who dwell in your house;
they
are ever praising you.
Selah
5
Blessed
are those whose strength is in you,
who
have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6
As
they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they
make it a place of springs;
the
autumn rains also cover it with pools. B
7
They
go from strength to strength,
till
each appears before God in Zion.
8
Hear
my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen
to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah
9
Look
upon our shield, C O God;
look
with favor on your anointed one. [4]
10
Better
is one day in your courts
than
a thousand elsewhere;
I
would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than
dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11
For
the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the
LORD bestows favor and honor;
no
good thing does he withhold
from
those whose walk is blameless.
12
O
LORD Almighty,
blessed
is the man who trusts in you. [5]
PSALMS: 114
1
When
Israel came out of Egypt,
the
house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2
Judah
became God's sanctuary,
Israel
his dominion.
3
The
sea looked and fled,
the
Jordan turned back;
4
the
mountains skipped like rams,
the
hills like lambs.
5
Why
was it, O sea, that you fled,
O
Jordan, that you turned back,
6
you
mountains, that you skipped like rams,
you
hills, like lambs?
7
Tremble,
O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at
the presence of the God of Jacob,
8
who
turned the rock into a pool,
the
hard rock into springs of water. [6]
PSALMS: 144
Of
David.
1
Praise
be to the LORD my Rock,
who
trains my hands for war,
my
fingers for battle.
2
He
is my loving God and my fortress,
my
stronghold and my deliverer,
my
shield, in whom I take refuge,
who
subdues peoples A under me.
3
O
LORD, what is man that you care for him,
the
son of man that you think of him?
4
Man
is like a breath;
his
days are like a fleeting shadow.
5
Part
your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
touch
the mountains, so that they smoke.
6
Send
forth lightning and scatter the enemies;
shoot
your arrows and rout them.
7
Reach
down your hand from on high;
deliver
me and rescue me
from
the mighty waters,
from
the hands of foreigners
8
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
9
I
will sing a new song to you, O God;
on
the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10
to
the One who gives victory to kings,
who
delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. [7]
11
Deliver
me and rescue me
from
the hands of foreigners
whose
mouths are full of lies,
whose
right hands are deceitful.
12
Then
our sons in their youth
will
be like well-nurtured plants,
and
our daughters will be like pillars
carved
to adorn a palace.
13
Our
barns will be filled
with
every kind of provision.
Our
sheep will increase by thousands,
by
tens of thousands in our fields;
14
our
oxen will draw heavy loads. B
There
will be no breaching of walls,
no
going into captivity,
no
cry of distress in our streets.
15
Blessed
are the people of whom this is true;
blessed
are the people whose God is the LORD. [8]
PROVERBS: 24
24
1
Do not envy wicked men,
do
not desire their company;
2
for
their hearts plot violence,
and
their lips talk about making trouble.
3
By
wisdom a house is built,
and
through understanding it is established;
4
through
knowledge its rooms are filled
with
rare and beautiful treasures.
5
A
wise man has great power,
and
a man of knowledge increases strength;
6
for
waging war you need guidance,
and
for victory many advisers.
7
Wisdom
is too high for a fool;
in
the assembly at the gate he has nothing to say.
8
He
who plots evil
will
be known as a schemer.
9
The
schemes of folly are sin,
and
men detest a mocker.
10
If
you falter in times of trouble,
how
small is your strength!
11
Rescue
those being led away to death;
hold
back those staggering toward slaughter.
12
If
you say, "But we knew nothing about this,"
does
not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does
not he who guards your life know it?
Will
he not repay each person according to what he has done? [9]
13
Eat
honey, my son, for it is good;
honey
from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14
Know
also that wisdom is sweet to your soul;
if
you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and
your hope will not be cut off.
15
Do
not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's
house,
do
not raid his dwelling place;
16
for
though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again,
but
the wicked are brought down by calamity.
17
Do
not gloat when your enemy falls;
when
he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
18
or
the LORD will see and disapprove
and
turn his wrath away from him.
19
Do
not fret because of evil men
or
be envious of the wicked,
20
for
the evil man has no future hope,
and
the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
21
Fear
the LORD and the king, my son,
and
do not join with the rebellious,
22
for
those two will send sudden destruction upon them,
and
who knows what calamities they can bring?
23
These
also are sayings of the wise:
To
show partiality in judging is not good:
24
Whoever
says to the guilty, "You are innocent"--
peoples
will curse him and nations denounce him.
25
But
it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and
rich blessing will come upon them. [10]
26
An
honest answer
is
like a kiss on the lips.
27
Finish
your outdoor work
and
get your fields ready;
after
that, build your house.
28
Do
not testify against your neighbor without cause,
or
use your lips to deceive.
29
Do
not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me;
I'll
pay that man back for what he did."
30
I
went past the field of the sluggard,
past
the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31
thorns
had come up everywhere,
the
ground was covered with weeds,
and
the stone wall was in ruins.
32
I
applied my heart to what I observed
and
learned a lesson from what I saw:
33
A
little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to rest--
34
and
poverty will come on you like a bandit
and
scarcity like an armed man. A [11]
OLD
TESTAMENT: JOSHUA 11:1 - 12:24
11
1
When
Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the
kings of Shimron and Acshaph, 2 and to the northern kings who were in
the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in
Naphoth DorA on the west; 3 to the Canaanites in the east
and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill
country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. 4
They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and
chariots--a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 5 All
these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom, to
fight against Israel.
6
The
LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them,
because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them over to Israel, slain. You
are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."
7
So
Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and
attacked them, 8 and the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel. They
defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim,
and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. 9
Joshua did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and
burned their chariots.
10
At
that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword.
(Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) 11 Everyone in it
they put to the sword. They totally destroyed B them, not sparing
anything that breathed, and he burned up Hazor itself. [12]
12
Joshua
took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He
totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. 13
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds--except
Hazor, which Joshua burned. 14 The Israelites carried off for
themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people
they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone
that breathed. 15 As the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses
commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD
commanded Moses.
16
So
Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region
of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with
their foothills, 17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to
Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their
kings and struck them down, putting them to death. 18 Joshua waged
war against all these kings for a long time.
19
Except
for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the
Israelites, who took them all in battle. 20 For it was the LORD
himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might
destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
21
At
that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from
Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the
hill country of Israel. Joshua totally [13]
destroyed
them and their towns. 22 No Anakites were left in Israelite
territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive. 23 So
Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it
as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions.
Then
the land had rest from war.
12
1
These
are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory
they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon,
including all the eastern side of the Arabah:
2
Sihon
king of the Amorites,
who
reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge--from the
middle of the gorge--to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.
This included half of Gilead. 3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah
from the Sea of Kinnereth A to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea
B), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
4
And
the territory of Og king of Bashan,
one
of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. 5
He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the
people of Geshur and Maacah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of
Heshbon.
6
Moses,
the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the
servant of the LORD gave their land to the [14]
Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.
7
These
are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west
side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which
rises toward Seir (their lands Joshua gave as an inheritance to the tribes of
Israel according to their tribal divisions—8 the hill country, the
western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the desert and the
Negev--the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and
Jebusites):
9
the
king of Jericho one
the
king of Ai (near Bethel) one
10
the
king of Jerusalem one
the
king of Hebron one
11
the
king of Jarmuth one
the
king of Lachish one
12
the
king of Eglon one
the
king of Gezer one
13
the
king of Debir one
the
king of Geder one
14
the
king of Hormah one
the
king of Arad one
15
the
king of Libnah one
the
king of Adullam one
16
the
king of Makkedah one
the
king of Bethel one [15]
17
the
king of Tappuah one
the
king of Hepher one
18
the
king of Aphek one
the
king of Lasharon one
19
the
king of Madon one
the
king of Hazor one
20
the
king of Shimron Meron one
the
king of Acshaph one
21
the
king of Taanach one
the
king of Megiddo one
22
the
king of Kedesh one
the
king of Jokneam in Carmel one
23
the
king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor C) one
the
king of Goyim in Gilgal one
24
the
king of Tirzah one
thirty-one
kings in all. [16]
NEW
TESTAMENT: LUKE 17:11 - 37
11
Now
on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and
Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy
A met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a
loud voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
14
When
he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to the
priests." And as they went, they were cleansed.
15
One
of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
16
He
threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan.
17
Jesus
asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other
nine? 18 Was no one found to return
and give praise to God except this foreigner?" 19 Then he said
to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you
well."
20
Once,
having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus
replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your
careful observation, 21 nor will
people say, `Here it is,' or `There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within
B you."
22
Then
he said to his disciples, "The time is coming when you
will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
23 Men will tell you, `There he is!'
or `Here he is!' Do not go running off after them. 24 For the Son of Man in his day C will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the
sky from one end to the other. 25
But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son
of Man.
27
People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day
Noah entered the ark. [17]
Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28
"It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and
selling, planting and building. 29
But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and
destroyed them all.
30
"It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31
On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside,
should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for
anything. 32
Remember Lot's wife!
33
Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will
preserve it.
34
I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and
the other left. 35
Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other
left.
D"
37
"Where,
Lord?" they asked.
He
replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the
vultures will gather." [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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