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,
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 seventy A
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 life H
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."
8
When
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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