Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JANUARY
1
PSALMS: 1, 31, 61, 91,
121
PROVERBS: 1
OLD
TESTAMENT:
NUMBERS 36:1 - DEUTERONOMY
1:46
NEW
TESTAMENT: LUKE 5:29 -
6:11
PSALMS:
1
1
Blessed
is the man
who
does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or
stand in the way of sinners
or
sit in the seat of mockers.
2
But
his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and
on his law he meditates day and night.
3
He
is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which
yields its fruit in season
and
whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever
he does prospers.
4
Not
so the wicked!
They
are like chaff
that
the wind blows away.
5
Therefore
the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor
sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6
For
the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but
the way of the wicked will perish. [1]
PSALMS: 31
For
the director of music. A psalm of David.
1
In
you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let
me never be put to shame;
deliver
me in your righteousness.
2
Turn
your ear to me,
come
quickly to my rescue;
be
my rock of refuge,
a
strong fortress to save me.
3
Since
you are my rock and my fortress,
for
the sake of your name lead and guide me.
4
Free
me from the trap that is set for me,
for
you are my refuge.
5
Into
your hands I commit my spirit;
redeem
me, O LORD, the God of truth.
6
I
hate those who cling to worthless idols;
I
trust in the LORD.
7
I
will be glad and rejoice in your love,
for
you saw my affliction
and
knew the anguish of my soul.
8
You
have not handed me over to the enemy
but
have set my feet in a spacious place.
9
Be
merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my
eyes grow weak with sorrow,
my
soul and my body with grief.
10
My
life is consumed by anguish
and
my years by groaning;
my
strength fails because of my affliction, A
and
my bones grow weak. [2]
11
Because
of all my enemies,
I
am the utter contempt of my neighbors;
I
am a dread to my friends--
those
who see me on the street flee from me.
12
I
am forgotten by them as though I were dead;
I
have become like broken pottery.
13
For
I hear the slander of many;
there
is terror on every side;
they
conspire against me
and
plot to take my life.
14
But
I trust in you, O LORD;
I
say, "You are my God."
15
My
times are in your hands;
deliver
me from my enemies
and
from those who pursue me.
16
Let
your face shine on your servant;
save
me in your unfailing love.
17
Let
me not be put to shame, O LORD,
for
I have cried out to you;
but
let the wicked be put to shame
and
lie silent in the grave. B
18
Let
their lying lips be silenced,
for
with pride and contempt
they
speak arrogantly against the righteous.
19
How
great is your goodness,
which
you have stored up for those who fear you,
which
you bestow in the sight of men
on
those who take refuge in you.
20
In
the shelter of your presence you hide them
from
the intrigues of men;
in
your dwelling you keep them safe [3]
from
accusing tongues.
21
Praise
be to the LORD,
for
he showed his wonderful love to me
when
I was in a besieged city.
22
In
my alarm I said,
"I
am cut off from your sight!"
Yet
you heard my cry for mercy
when
I called to you for help.
23
Love
the LORD, all his saints!
The
LORD preserves the faithful,
but
the proud he pays back in full.
24
Be
strong and take heart,
all
you who hope in the LORD. [4]
PSALMS: 61
For
the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of
David.
1
Hear
my cry, O God;
listen
to my prayer.
2
From
the ends of the earth I call to you,
I
call as my heart grows faint;
lead
me to the rock that is higher than I.
3
For
you have been my refuge,
a
strong tower against the foe.
4
I
long to dwell in your tent forever
and
take refuge in the shelter of your wings.
Selah
5
For
you have heard my vows, O God;
you
have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
6
Increase
the days of the king's life,
his
years for many generations.
7
May
he be enthroned in God's presence forever;
appoint
your love and faithfulness to protect him.
8
Then
will I ever sing praise to your name
and
fulfill my vows day after day. [5]
PSALMS: 91
1
He
who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will
rest in the shadow of the Almighty. A
2
I
will say B of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my
fortress,
my
God, in whom I trust."
3
Surely
he will save you from the fowler's snare
and
from the deadly pestilence.
4
He
will cover you with his feathers,
and
under his wings you will find refuge;
his
faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5
You
will not fear the terror of night,
nor
the arrow that flies by day,
6
nor
the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor
the plague that destroys at midday.
7
A
thousand may fall at your side,
ten
thousand at your right hand,
but
it will not come near you.
8
You
will only observe with your eyes
and
see the punishment of the wicked.
9
If
you make the Most High your dwelling--
even
the LORD, who is my refuge--
10
then
no harm will befall you,
no
disaster will come near your tent.
11
For
he will command his angels concerning you
to
guard you in all your ways;
12
they
will lift you up in their hands,
so
that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13
You
will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you
will trample the great lion and the serpent. [6]
14
"Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him;
I
will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He
will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I
will be with him in trouble,
I
will deliver him and honor him.
16
With long life will I satisfy him
and
show him my salvation."
[7]
PSALMS: 121
A
song of ascents.
1
I
lift up my eyes to the hills--
where
does my help come from?
2
My
help comes from the LORD,
the
Maker of heaven and earth.
3
He
will not let your foot slip--
he
who watches over you will not slumber;
4
indeed,
he who watches over Israel
will
neither slumber nor sleep.
5
The
LORD watches over you--
the
LORD is your shade at your right hand;
6
the
sun will not harm you by day,
nor
the moon by night.
7
The
LORD will keep you from all harm--
he
will watch over your life;
8
the
LORD will watch over your coming and going
both
now and forevermore. [8]
PROVERBS: 1
1
1
The
proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
2
for
attaining wisdom and discipline;
for
understanding words of insight;
3
for
acquiring a disciplined and prudent life,
doing
what is right and just and fair;
4
for
giving prudence to the simple,
knowledge
and discretion to the young--
5
let
the wise listen and add to their learning,
and
let the discerning get guidance--
6
for
understanding proverbs and parables,
the
sayings and riddles of the wise.
7
The
fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but
foolsA despise wisdom and discipline.
8
Listen,
my son, to your father's instruction
and
do not forsake your mother's teaching.
9
They
will be a garland to grace your head
and
a chain to adorn your neck.
10
My
son, if sinners entice you,
do
not give in to them.
11
If
they say, "Come along with us;
let's
lie in wait for someone's blood,
let's
waylay some harmless soul;
12
let's
swallow them alive, like the grave, B [9]
and
whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13
we
will get all sorts of valuable things
and
fill our houses with plunder;
14
throw
in your lot with us,
and
we will share a common purse"--
15
my
son, do not go along with them,
do
not set foot on their paths;
16
for
their feet rush into sin,
they
are swift to shed blood.
17
How
useless to spread a net
in
full view of all the birds!
18
These
men lie in wait for their own blood;
they
waylay only themselves!
19
Such
is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
it
takes away the lives of those who get it.
20
Wisdom
calls aloud in the street,
she
raises her voice in the public squares;
21
at
the head of the noisy streets C she cries out,
in
the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
22
"How
long will you simple ones D love your simple
ways?
How
long will mockers delight in mockery
and
fools hate knowledge?
23
If
you had responded to my rebuke,
I
would have poured out my heart to you
and
made my thoughts known to you.
24
But
since you rejected me when I called
and
no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
2
5since
you ignored all my advice
and
would not accept my rebuke,
26
I
in turn will laugh at your disaster; [10]
I
will mock when calamity overtakes you--
27
when
calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when
disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
when
distress and trouble overwhelm you.
28
"Then they will call to me but I will not
answer;
they
will look for me but will not find me.
29
Since they hated knowledge
and
did not choose to fear the LORD,
30
since they would not accept my advice
and
spurned my rebuke,
31
they will eat the fruit of their ways
and
be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
32
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
and
the complacency of fools will destroy them;
33
but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and
be at ease, without fear of harm."
[11]
OLD
TESTAMENT: NUMBERS
36:1 - DEUTERONOMY 1:46
36
1
The
family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were
from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the
leaders, the heads of the Israelite families. 2 They said, "When the
LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by
lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his
daughters. 3 Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes;
then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to
that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us
will be taken away. 4 When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites
comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they
marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our
forefathers."
5
Then
at the LORD's command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: "What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is
right. 6 This is what the LORD
commands for Zelophehad's daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long
as they marry within the tribal clan of their father. 7 No inheritance in Israel is to pass from tribe to tribe,
for every Israelite shall keep the tribal land inherited from his forefathers.
8 Every daughter who inherits land
in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father's tribal clan, so that
every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
9 No inheritance may pass from tribe
to tribe, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits."
10
So
Zelophehad's daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses. 11
Zelophehad's daughters--Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah--married
their cousins on their father's side. 12 They [12]
They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and
their inheritance remained in their father's clan and tribe.
13
These
are the commands and regulations the LORD gave through Moses to the Israelites
on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho. A [13]
1
1
These
are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan--that
is, in the Arabah--opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and
Dizahab. 2 (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by
the Mount Seir road.)
3
In
the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to
the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them. 4
This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in
Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
5
East
of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:
6
The
LORD our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed
long enough at this mountain. 7
Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the
neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills,
in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon,
as far as the great river, the Euphrates. 8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession
of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob--and to their descendants after them."
9
At
that time I said to you, "You are too heavy a burden
for me to carry alone. 10 The LORD
your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as many as the stars
in the sky. 11 May the LORD, the God
of your fathers, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised!
12 But how can I bear your problems
and your burdens and your disputes all by myself? 13 Choose some wise, [14] understanding and respected men from each of your tribes,
and I will set them over you."
14
You
answered me, "What you propose to do is good."
15
So
I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed
them to have authority over you--as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of
fifties and of tens and as tribal officials. 16 And I charged your
judges at that time: Hear the disputes between your brothers and judge fairly,
whether the case is between brother Israelites or between one of them and an
alien. 17 Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and
great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me
any case too hard for you, and I will hear it. 18 And at that time I
told you everything you were to do.
19
Then,
as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill
country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have
seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. 20 Then I said to you, "You
have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving
us. 21 See, the LORD your God has given you the land. Go up and take
possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
22
Then
all of you came to me and said, "Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for
us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will
come to."
23
The
idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe.
24
They
left and went up into the hill country, [15]
and came to the Valley of Eshcol and explored it. 25 Taking with them
some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, "It is a
good land that the LORD our God is giving us."
26
But
you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your
God. 27 You grumbled in your tents and said, "The LORD hates us; so
he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to
destroy us. 28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart.
They say, `The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large,
with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.' "
29
Then
I said to you, "Do not be terrified; do not be afraid
of them. 30 The LORD your God, who
is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your
very eyes, 31 and in the desert.
There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son,
all the way you went until you reached this place."
32
In
spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 33 who went
ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search
out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.
34
When
the LORD heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: 35
"Not a man of this evil generation shall see the
good land I swore to give your forefathers,
36
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his
descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the LORD
wholeheartedly."
[16]
37 Because of you the LORD became angry with me also and said, "You shall not enter it, either. 38 But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it.
Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it.
39 And the little ones that you said
would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad--they
will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.
40 But as for you, turn around and
set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea. A"
41
Then
you replied, "We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the
LORD our God commanded us." So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it
easy to go up into the hill country.
42
But
the LORD said to me, "Tell them, `Do not go up and
fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your
enemies.' "
43
So
I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the LORD's command
and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country. 44 The
Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a
swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah. 45
You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your
weeping and turned a deaf ear to you. 46 And so you stayed in Kadesh
many days--all the time you spent there. [17]
NEW
TESTAMENT: LUKE 5:29 -
6:11
29
Then
Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax
collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the Pharisees and
the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples,
"Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and `sinners'?"
31
Jesus
answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a
doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not
come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
33
They
said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of
the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
34
Jesus
answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom
fast while he is with them? 35 But
the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days
they will fast."
36
He
told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a
new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new
garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
37 And no one pours new wine into
old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run
out and the wineskins will be ruined.
38
No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39
And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, `The old is
better.'"
[18]
6
1
One
Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick
some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels. 2
Some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what is unlawful on the
Sabbath?"
3
Jesus
answered them, "Have you never read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated
bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to
his companions." 5 Then Jesus said
to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."
6
On
another Sabbath he went into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there
whose right hand was shriveled. 7 The Pharisees and the teachers of
the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely
to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. 8 But Jesus knew what they
were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Get up and stand in
front of everyone." So he got up and stood there.
9
Then
Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the
Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"
10
He
looked around at them all, and then said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was
completely restored. 11 But they were furious and began to discuss
with one another what they might do to Jesus. [19]
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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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