Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
MAY
18
PSALMS:
18, 48, 78, 108, 138
PROVERBS:
18
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZRA 4:24 - 6:22
NEW
TESTAMENT:
1 CORINTHIANS 3:5 - 23
PSALMS:
18
For
the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to
the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the
hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said:
1
I
love you, O LORD, my strength.
2
The
LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my
God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He
is my shield and the horn A
of my salvation, my stronghold.
3
I
call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and
I am saved from my enemies.
4
The
cords of death entangled me;
the
torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
5
The
cords of the grave B
coiled around me;
the
snares of death confronted me.
6
In
my distress I called to the LORD;
I
cried to my God for help.
From
his temple he heard my voice;
my
cry came before him, into his ears.
7
The
earth trembled and quaked,
and
the foundations of the mountains shook;
they
trembled because he was angry.
8
Smoke
rose from his nostrils;
consuming
fire came from his mouth,
burning
coals blazed out of it.
9
He
parted the heavens and came down;
dark
clouds were under his feet.
10
He
mounted the cherubim and flew;
he
soared on the wings of the wind. 1
11
He
made darkness his covering, his canopy around him--
the
dark rain clouds of the sky.
12
Out
of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,
with
hailstones and bolts of lightning.
13
The
LORD thundered from heaven;
the
voice of the Most High resounded. C
14
He
shot his arrows and scattered the enemies,
great
bolts of lightning and routed them.
15
The
valleys of the sea were exposed
and
the foundations of the earth laid bare
at
your rebuke, O LORD,
at
the blast of breath from your nostrils.
16
He
reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he
drew me out of deep waters.
17
He
rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from
my foes, who were too strong for me.
18
They
confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but
the LORD was my support.
19
He
brought me out into a spacious place;
he
rescued me because he delighted in me.
20
The
LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according
to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
21
For
I have kept the ways of the LORD;
I
have not done evil by turning from my God.
22
All
his laws are before me;
I
have not turned away from his decrees.
23
I
have been blameless before him
and
have kept myself from sin.
24
The
LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according
to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. 2
25
To
the faithful you show yourself faithful,
to
the blameless you show yourself blameless,
26
to
the pure you show yourself pure,
but
to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
27
You
save the humble
but
bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
28
You,
O LORD, keep my lamp burning;
my
God turns my darkness into light.
29
With
your help I can advance against a troop D;
with
my God I can scale a wall.
30
As
for God, his way is perfect;
the
word of the LORD is flawless.
He
is a shield
for
all who take refuge in him.
31
For
who is God besides the LORD?
And
who is the Rock except our God?
32
It
is God who arms me with strength
and
makes my way perfect.
33
He
makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
he
enables me to stand on the heights.
34
He
trains my hands for battle;
my
arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35
You
give me your shield of victory,
and
your right hand sustains me;
you
stoop down to make me great.
36
You
broaden the path beneath me,
so
that my ankles do not turn.
37
I
pursued my enemies and overtook them;
I
did not turn back till they were destroyed.
38
I
crushed them so that they could not rise;
they
fell beneath my feet. 3
39
You
armed me with strength for battle;
you
made my adversaries bow at my feet.
40
You
made my enemies turn their backs in flight,
and
I destroyed my foes.
41
They
cried for help, but there was no one to save them--
to
the LORD, but he did not answer.
42
I
beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind;
I
poured them out like mud in the streets.
43
You
have delivered me from the attacks of the people;
you
have made me the head of nations;
people
I did not know are subject to me.
44
As
soon as they hear me, they obey me;
foreigners
cringe before me.
45
They
all lose heart;
they
come trembling from their strongholds.
46
The
LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock!
Exalted
be God my Savior!
47
He
is the God who avenges me,
who
subdues nations under me,
48
who
saves me from my enemies.
You
exalted me above my foes;
from
violent men you rescued me.
49
Therefore
I will praise you among the nations, O LORD;
I
will sing praises to your name.
50
He
gives his king great victories;
he
shows unfailing kindness to his anointed,
to
David and his descendants forever. 4
PSALMS:
48
A
song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1
Great
is the LORD, and most worthy of praise,
in
the city of our God, his holy mountain.
2
It
is beautiful in its loftiness,
the
joy of the whole earth.
Like
the utmost heights of Zaphon A
is Mount Zion,
the
B
city of the Great King.
3
God
is in her citadels;
he
has shown himself to be her fortress.
4
When
the kings joined forces,
when
they advanced together,
5
they
saw her and were astounded;
they
fled in terror.
6
Trembling
seized them there,
pain
like that of a woman in labor.
7
You
destroyed them like ships of Tarshish
shattered
by an east wind.
8
As
we have heard,
so
have we seen
in
the city of the LORD Almighty,
in
the city of our God:
God
makes her secure forever.
Selah
9
Within
your temple, O God,
we
meditate on your unfailing love.
10
Like
your name, O God,
your
praise reaches to the ends of the earth;
your
right hand is filled with righteousness. 5
11
Mount
Zion rejoices,
the
villages of Judah are glad
because
of your judgments.
12
Walk
about Zion, go around her,
count
her towers,
13
consider
well her ramparts,
view
her citadels,
that
you may tell of them to the next generation.
14
For
this God is our God for ever and ever;
he
will be our guide even to the end. 6
PSALMS:
78
A
maskil
A
of Asaph.
1
O
my people, hear my teaching;
listen
to the words of my mouth.
2
I
will open my mouth in parables,
I
will utter hidden things, things from of old--
3
what
we have heard and known,
what
our fathers have told us.
4
We
will not hide them from their children;
we
will tell the next generation
the
praiseworthy deeds of the LORD,
his
power, and the wonders he has done.
5
He
decreed statutes for Jacob
and
established the law in Israel,
which
he commanded our forefathers
to
teach their children,
6
so
the next generation would know them,
even
the children yet to be born,
and
they in turn would tell their children.
7
Then
they would put their trust in God
and
would not forget his deeds
but
would keep his commands.
8
They
would not be like their forefathers--
a
stubborn and rebellious generation,
whose
hearts were not loyal to God,
whose
spirits were not faithful to him.
9
The
men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned
back on the day of battle;
10
they
did not keep God's covenant
and
refused to live by his law.
11
They
forgot what he had done,
the
wonders he had shown them.
12
He
did miracles in the sight of their fathers
in
the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13
He
divided the sea and led them through;
he
made the water stand firm like a wall.
14
He
guided them with the cloud by day
and
with light from the fire all night.
15
He
split the rocks in the desert
and
gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16
he
brought streams out of a rocky crag
and
made water flow down like rivers.
17
But
they continued to sin against him,
rebelling
in the desert against the Most High.
18
They
willfully put God to the test
by
demanding the food they craved.
19
They
spoke against God, saying,
"Can
God spread a table in the desert?
20
When
he struck the rock, water gushed out,
and
streams flowed abundantly.
But
can he also give us food?
Can
he supply meat for his people?"
21
When
the LORD heard them, he was very angry;
his
fire broke out against Jacob,
and
his wrath rose against Israel,
22
for
they did not believe in God
or
trust in his deliverance.
23
Yet
he gave a command to the skies above
and
opened the doors of the heavens;
he
gave them the grain of heaven.
25
Men
ate the bread of angels;
he
sent them all the food they could eat.
26
He
let loose the east wind from the heavens
and
led forth the south wind by his power.
27
He
rained meat down on them like dust,
flying
birds like sand on the seashore.
28
He
made them come down inside their camp,
all
around their tents.
29
They
ate till they had more than enough,
for
he had given them what they craved.
30
But
before they turned from the food they craved,
even
while it was still in their mouths,
31
God's
anger rose against them;
he
put to death the sturdiest among them,
cutting
down the young men of Israel.
32
In
spite of all this, they kept on sinning;
in
spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
33
So
he ended their days in futility
and
their years in terror.
34
Whenever
God slew them, they would seek him;
they
eagerly turned to him again.
35
They
remembered that God was their Rock,
that
God Most High was their Redeemer.
36
But
then they would flatter him with their mouths,
lying
to him with their tongues;
37
their
hearts were not loyal to him,
they
were not faithful to his covenant.
38
Yet
he was merciful;
he
forgave their iniquities
and
did not destroy them.
Time
after time he restrained his anger
and
did not stir up his full wrath. 8
39
He
remembered that they were but flesh,
a
passing breeze that does not return.
40
How
often they rebelled against him in the desert
and
grieved him in the wasteland!
41
Again
and again they put God to the test;
they
vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42
They
did not remember his power--
the
day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43
the
day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt,
his
wonders in the region of Zoan.
44
He
turned their rivers to blood;
they
could not drink from their streams.
45
He
sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and
frogs that devastated them.
46
He
gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their
produce to the locust.
47
He
destroyed their vines with hail
and
their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48
He
gave over their cattle to the hail,
their
livestock to bolts of lightning.
49
He
unleashed against them his hot anger,
his
wrath, indignation and hostility--
a
band of destroying angels.
50
He
prepared a path for his anger;
he
did not spare them from death
but
gave them over to the plague.
51
He
struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the
firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52
But
he brought his people out like a flock;
he
led them like sheep through the desert.
53
He
guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but
the sea engulfed their enemies.
to
the hill country his right hand had taken.
55
He
drove out nations before them
and
allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
he
settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56
But
they put God to the test
and
rebelled against the Most High;
they
did not keep his statutes.
57
Like
their fathers they were disloyal and faithless,
as
unreliable as a faulty bow.
58
They
angered him with their high places;
they
aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59
When
God heard them, he was very angry;
he
rejected Israel completely.
60
He
abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the
tent he had set up among men.
61
He
sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his
splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62
He
gave his people over to the sword;
he
was very angry with his inheritance.
63
Fire
consumed their young men,
and
their maidens had no wedding songs;
64
their
priests were put to the sword,
and
their widows could not weep.
65
Then
the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as
a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
66
He
beat back his enemies;
he
put them to everlasting shame.
67
Then
he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he
did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
Mount
Zion, which he loved.
69
He
built his sanctuary like the heights,
like
the earth that he established forever.
70
He
chose David his servant
and
took him from the sheep pens;
71
from
tending the sheep he brought him
to
be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of
Israel his inheritance.
72
And
David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with
skillful hands he led them. 11
PSALMS:
108
A
song. A psalm of David.
1
My
heart is steadfast, O God;
I
will sing and make music with all my soul.
2
Awake,
harp and lyre!
I
will awaken the dawn.
3
I
will praise you, O LORD, among the nations;
I
will sing of you among the peoples.
4
For
great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your
faithfulness reaches to the skies.
5
Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens,
and
let your glory be over all the earth.
6
Save
us and help us with your right hand,
that
those you love may be delivered.
7
God
has spoken from his sanctuary:
"In
triumph I will parcel out Shechem
and
measure off the Valley of Succoth.
8
Gilead
is mine, Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim
is my helmet,
Judah
my scepter.
9
Moab
is my washbasin,
upon
Edom I toss my sandal;
over
Philistia I shout in triumph."
10
Who
will bring me to the fortified city?
Who
will lead me to Edom?
11
Is
it not you, O God, you who have rejected us
and
no longer go out with our armies?
12
Give
us aid against the enemy,
for
the help of man is worthless.
and
he will trample down our enemies. 13
PSALMS:
138
Of
David.
1
I
will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart;
before
the "gods" I will sing your praise.
2
I
will bow down toward your holy temple
and
will praise your name
for
your love and your faithfulness,
for
you have exalted above all things
your
name and your word.
3
When
I called, you answered me;
you
made me bold and stouthearted.
4
May
all the kings of the earth praise you, O LORD,
when
they hear the words of your mouth.
5
May
they sing of the ways of the LORD,
6
Though
the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly,
but
the proud he knows from afar.
7
Though
I walk in the midst of trouble,
you
preserve my life;
you
stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,
with
your right hand you save me.
8
The
LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
your
love, O LORD, endures forever--
do
not abandon the works of your hands. 14
PROVERBS:
18
18
1
An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends;
he
defies all sound judgment.
2
A
fool finds no pleasure in understanding
but
delights in airing his own opinions.
3
When
wickedness comes, so does contempt,
and
with shame comes disgrace.
4
The
words of a man's mouth are deep waters,
but
the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
5
It
is not good to be partial to the wicked
or
to deprive the innocent of justice.
6
A
fool's lips bring him strife,
and
his mouth invites a beating.
7
A
fool's mouth is his undoing,
and
his lips are a snare to his soul.
8
The
words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they
go down to a man's inmost parts.
9
One
who is slack in his work
is
brother to one who destroys.
10
The
name of the LORD is a strong tower;
the
righteous run to it and are safe.
11The
wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
they
imagine it an unscalable wall. 15
12
Before
his downfall a man's heart is proud,
but
humility comes before honor.
13
He
who answers before listening--
that
is his folly and his shame.
14
A
man's spirit sustains him in sickness,
but
a crushed spirit who can bear?
15
The
heart of the discerning acquires knowledge;
the
ears of the wise seek it out.
16
A
gift opens the way for the giver
and
ushers him into the presence of the great.
17
The
first to present his case seems right,
till
another comes forward and questions him.
18
Casting
the lot settles disputes
and
keeps strong opponents apart.
19
An
offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city,
and
disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.
20
From
the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled;
with
the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.
21
The
tongue has the power of life and death,
and
those who love it will eat its fruit.
22
He
who finds a wife finds what is good
and
receives favor from the LORD. 16
23
A
poor man pleads for mercy,
but
a rich man answers harshly.
24
A
man of many companions may come to ruin,
but
there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. 17
OLD
TESTAMENT:
EZRA 4:24 - 6:22
24
Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill
until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
5
1 Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of
Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of
the God of Israel, who was over them.
2
Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak set to
work to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of
God were with them, helping them.
3
At that time Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and
Shethar-Bozenai and their associates went to them and asked, "Who
authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?"
4 They also asked, "What are the names of the men constructing
this building?" A 5 But the eye of their God was watching
over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report
could go to Darius and his written reply be received.
6
This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of
Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the
officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius. 7 The report they
sent him read as follows:
To
King Darius:
Cordial
greetings.
8
The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the
temple of the great God. The people are building it with large stones
and placing the timbers in the walls. The work is being carried on
with diligence and is making rapid progress under their direction.
9
We questioned the elders and asked them, "Who authorized you to
rebuild this temple and restore this structure?" 10 We also
asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of
their leaders for your information.
11
This is the answer they gave us:
"We
are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are
rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, one that a great
king of Israel built and finished. 12 But because our fathers angered
the God of heaven, he handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar the
Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the
people to Babylon.
13
"However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus
issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. 14 He even removed from
[18]
the temple B of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the
house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in
Jerusalem and brought to the temple C in Babylon.
"Then
King Cyrus gave them to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had
appointed governor, 15 and he told him, `Take these articles and go
and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem. And rebuild the house of
God on its site.'
16
So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God
in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under
construction but is not yet finished."
17
Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal
archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree
to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us
his decision in this matter.
6
1
King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives
stored in the treasury at Babylon. 2 A scroll was found in the
citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on
it:
Memorandum:
3
In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning
the temple of God in Jerusalem:
Let
the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its
foundations be laid. It is to be ninety feet A high and ninety
feet wide, 4 with three courses of large stones and one of timbers.
The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury. 5 Also, the gold and
silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from
the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to
their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in
the house of God. there. 7 Do not interfere with the work on this
temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders
rebuild this house of God on its site.
8
Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the
Jews in the construction of this house of God:
The
expenses of these men are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury,
from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop.
9 Whatever is needed--young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt
offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and oil, as
requested by the priests in Jerusalem--must be given them daily
without fail, 10 so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the
God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons.
11
Furthermore, I decree that if anyone changes this edict, a beam is to
be pulled from his house and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it.
And for this crime his house is to be made a pile of rubble. 12 May
God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or
people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this
temple in Jerusalem.
I
Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.
13
Then, because of the decree King Darius had sent, Tattenai, governor
of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates carried
it out with diligence. 14 So the elders of the Jews continued to
build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and
Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple
according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of
Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.
15
The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the
sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
16
Then the people of Israel--the priests, the Levites and the rest of
the exiles--celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.
17 For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred
bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin
offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the
tribes of Israel. 18 And they installed the priests in their
divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at
Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
19
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the
Passover. 20 The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were
all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for
all the exiles, for their brothers the priests and for themselves. 21
So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together
with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of
their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
22 For seven days they celebrated with joy the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, because the [19]
LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of
Assyria, so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God,
the God of Israel. [20]
6
Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai
and you, their fellow officials of that province, stay away from [21]
NEW
TESTAMENT:
1 CORINTHIANS 3:5 - 23
5
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through
whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task.
6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So
neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God,
who makes things grow. 8 The man who plants and the man who waters
have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own
labor.
9
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
10
By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert
builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be
careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other
than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If any man
builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood,
hay or straw, 13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the
Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the
fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14 If what he has
built survives, he will receive his reward. 15 If it is burned up, he
will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping
through the flames.
16
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's
Spirit lives in you?
17
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's
temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
18
Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the
standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he
may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in
God's sight. As it is written: "He
catches the wise in their craftiness"
A;
20
and again, "The
Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."
B 21 So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours,
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas C or the world or life or
death or the present or the future--all are yours,
23
and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God. [22]
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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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