Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JUNE
23
PSALMS:
23, 53, 83, 113, 143
PROVERBS:
23
OLD
TESTAMENT:
ISAIAH 10:1 - 11:16
NEW
TESTAMENT:
2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 - 21
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
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
OLD
TESTAMENT:
ISAIAH 10:1 - 11:16
10
1
Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to
those who issue oppressive decrees,
2
to
deprive the poor of their rights
and
withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making
widows their prey
and
robbing the fatherless.
3
What
will you do on the day of reckoning,
when
disaster comes from afar?
To
whom will you run for help?
Where
will you leave your riches?
4
Nothing
will remain but to cringe among the captives
or
fall among the slain.
Yet
for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his
hand is still upraised.
5
"Woe
to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,
in
whose hand is the club of my wrath!
6
I
send him against a godless nation,
I
dispatch him against a people who anger me,
to
seize loot and snatch plunder,
and
to trample them down like mud in the streets.
7
But
this is not what he intends,
this
is not what he has in mind;
to
put an end to many nations.
8
`Are
not my commanders all kings?' he says.
9
`Has
not Calno fared like Carchemish?
Is
not Hamath like Arpad,
and
Samaria like Damascus?
10
As
my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,
kingdoms
whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria--
11
shall
I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
as
I dealt with Samaria and her idols?'"
12
When
the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem,
he will say, "I
will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart
and the haughty look in his eyes.
13
For he says:
"`By
the strength of my hand I have done this,
and
by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I
removed the boundaries of nations,
I
plundered their treasures;
like
a mighty one I subdued A
their kings.
14
As one reaches into a nest,
so
my hand reached for the wealth of the nations;
as
men gather abandoned eggs,
so
I gathered all the countries;
not
one flapped a wing,
15
Does
the ax raise itself above him who swings it,
or
the saw boast against him who uses it?
As
if a rod were to wield him who lifts it up,
or
a club brandish him who is not wood!
16
Therefore,
the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
will
send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors;
under
his pomp a fire will be kindled
like
a blazing flame.
17
The
Light of Israel will become a fire,
their
Holy One a flame;
in
a single day it will burn and consume
his
thorns and his briers.
18
The
splendor of his forests and fertile fields
it
will completely destroy,
as
when a sick man wastes away.
19
And
the remaining trees of his forests will be so few
that
a child could write them down.
20
In
that day the remnant of Israel,
the
survivors of the house of Jacob,
will
no longer rely on him
who
struck them down
but
will truly rely on the LORD,
the
Holy One of Israel.
will
return to the Mighty God.
22
Though
your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea,
only
a remnant will return.
Destruction
has been decreed,
overwhelming
and righteous.
23
The
Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out
the
destruction decreed upon the whole land.
24
Therefore,
this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says:
"O
my people who live in Zion,
do
not be afraid of the Assyrians,
who
beat you with a rod
and
lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
25
Very soon my anger against you will end
and
my wrath will be directed to their destruction."
26
The
LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip,
as
when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb;
and
he will raise his staff over the waters,
as
he did in Egypt.
27
In
that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders,
their
yoke from your neck;
the
yoke will be broken
28
They
enter Aiath;
they
pass through Migron;
they
store supplies at Micmash.
29
They
go over the pass, and say,
"We
will camp overnight at Geba."
Ramah
trembles;
Gibeah
of Saul flees.
30
Cry
out, O Daughter of Gallim!
Listen,
O Laishah!
Poor
Anathoth!
31
Madmenah
is in flight;
the
people of Gebim take cover.
32
This
day they will halt at Nob;
they
will shake their fist
at
the mount of the Daughter of Zion,
at
the hill of Jerusalem.
33
See,
the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
will
lop off the boughs with great power.
The
lofty trees will be felled,
the
tall ones will be brought low.
34
He
will cut down the forest thickets with an ax;
Lebanon
will fall before the Mighty One. 16
11
1
A
shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
from
his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2
The
Spirit of the LORD will rest on him--
the
Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the
Spirit of counsel and of power,
the
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD--
3
and
he will delight in the fear of the LORD.
He
will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,
or
decide by what he hears with his ears;
4
but
with righteousness he will judge the needy,
with
justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.
He
will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
with
the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
5
Righteousness
will be his belt
and
faithfulness the sash around his waist.
6
The
wolf will live with the lamb,
the
leopard will lie down with the goat,
the
calf and the lion and the yearling A
together;
and
a little child will lead them.
7
The
cow will feed with the bear,
their
young will lie down together,
and
the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8
The
infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and
the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
on
all my holy mountain,
for
the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as
the waters cover the sea.
10
In
that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples;
the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be
glorious. 11
In
that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim
the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower
Egypt, from Upper Egypt, B
from Cush, C
from Elam, from Babylonia, D
from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.
12
He
will raise a banner for the nations
and
gather the exiles of Israel;
he
will assemble the scattered people of Judah
from
the four quarters of the earth.
13
Ephraim's
jealousy will vanish,
and
Judah's enemies E
will be cut off;
Ephraim
will not be jealous of Judah,
nor
Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
14
They
will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west;
together
they will plunder the people to the east.
They
will lay hands on Edom and Moab,
and
the Ammonites will be subject to them.
15
The
LORD will dry up
the
gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with
a scorching wind he will sweep his hand 18
over
the Euphrates River. F
He
will break it up into seven streams
so
that men can cross over in sandals.
16
There
will be a highway for the remnant of his people
that
is left from Assyria,
as
there was for Israel
when
they came up from Egypt. 19
NEW
TESTAMENT:
2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 - 21
11
I
have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have
been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the
"super-apostles," even though I am nothing. 12
The
things that mark an apostle--signs, wonders and miracles--were done
among you with great perseverance. 13
How
were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a
burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14
Now
I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a
burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you.
After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but
parents for their children. 15
So
I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself
as well. If I love you more, will you love me less? 16
Be
that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow
that I am, I caught you by trickery! 17
Did
I exploit you through any of the men I sent you?
18
I
urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did
not exploit you, did he? Did we not act in the same spirit and follow
the same course?
19
Have
you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to
you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ;
and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. 20
For
I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be,
and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may
be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander,
gossip, arrogance and disorder. 21
I
am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you,
and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not
repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they 20
have indulged. 21
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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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