Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
OCTOBER
15
PSALMS:
15, 45, 75, 105, 135
PROVERBS:
15
OLD
TESTAMENT:
GENESIS 8:1 - 10:32
NEW
TESTAMENT:
MATTHEW 4:12 - 25
PSALMS:
15
A
psalm of David.
1
LORD,
who may dwell in your sanctuary?
Who
may live on your holy hill?
2
He
whose walk is blameless
and
who does what is righteous,
who
speaks the truth from his heart
3
and
has no slander on his tongue,
who
does his neighbor no wrong
and
casts no slur on his fellowman,
4
who
despises a vile man
but
honors those who fear the LORD,
who
keeps his oath
even
when it hurts,
5
who
lends his money without usury
and
does not accept a bribe against the innocent.
He
who does these things
will
never be shaken. 1
PSALMS:
45
For
the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies." Of the Sons
of Korah. A maskil.
A
A wedding song.
1
My
heart is stirred by a noble theme
as
I recite my verses for the king;
my
tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
2
You
are the most excellent of men
and
your lips have been anointed with grace,
since
God has blessed you forever.
3
Gird
your sword upon your side, O mighty one;
clothe
yourself with splendor and majesty.
4
In
your majesty ride forth victoriously
in
behalf of truth, humility and righteousness;
let
your right hand display awesome deeds.
5
Let
your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies;
let
the nations fall beneath your feet.
6
Your
throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;
a
scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
7
You
love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore
God, your God, has set you above your companions
by
anointing you with the oil of joy.
8
All
your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
from
palaces adorned with ivory
the
music of the strings makes you glad.
9
Daughters
of kings are among your honored women;
at
your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.
10
Listen,
O daughter, consider and give ear:
Forget
your people and your father's house. 2
11
The
king is enthralled by your beauty;
honor
him, for he is your lord.
12
The
Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift, B
men
of wealth will seek your favor.
13
All
glorious is the princess within her chamber;
her
gown is interwoven with gold.
14
In
embroidered garments she is led to the king;
her
virgin companions follow her
and
are brought to you.
15
They
are led in with joy and gladness;
they
enter the palace of the king.
16
Your
sons will take the place of your fathers;
you
will make them princes throughout the land.
17
I
will perpetuate your memory through all generations;
therefore
the nations will praise you for ever and ever. 3
PSALMS:
75
For
the director of music. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A
psalm of Asaph. A song.
1
We
give thanks to you, O God,
we
give thanks, for your Name is near;
men
tell of your wonderful deeds.
2
You
say, "I
choose the appointed time;
it
is I who judge uprightly.
3
When
the earth and all its people quake,
it
is I who hold its pillars firm.
Selah
4
To
the arrogant I say,
`Boast
no more,'
and
to the wicked,
`Do
not lift up your horns.
5
Do
not lift your horns against heaven;
do
not speak with outstretched neck.'"
6
No
one from the east or the west
or
from the desert can exalt a man.
7
But
it is God who judges:
He
brings one down, he exalts another.
8
In
the hand of the LORD is a cup
full
of foaming wine mixed with spices;
he
pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth
drink
it down to its very dregs.
9
As
for me, I will declare this forever;
I
will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
10
I
will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
but
the horns of the righteous will be lifted up. 4
PSALMS:
105
1
Give
thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make
known among the nations what he has done.
2
Sing
to him, sing praise to him;
tell
of all his wonderful acts.
3
Glory
in his holy name;
let
the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
4
Look
to the LORD and his strength;
seek
his face always.
5
Remember
the wonders he has done,
his
miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
6
O
descendants of Abraham his servant,
O
sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7
He
is the LORD our God;
his
judgments are in all the earth.
8
He
remembers his covenant forever,
the
word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
9
the
covenant he made with Abraham,
the
oath he swore to Isaac.
10
He
confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,
to
Israel as an everlasting covenant:
11
"To
you I will give the land of Canaan
as
the portion you will inherit."
12
When
they were but few in number,
few
indeed, and strangers in it,
13
they
wandered from nation to nation,
from
one kingdom to another.
14
He
allowed no one to oppress them;
for
their sake he rebuked kings:
15
"Do
not touch my anointed ones;
16
He
called down famine on the land
and
destroyed all their supplies of food;
17
and
he sent a man before them--
Joseph,
sold as a slave.
18
They
bruised his feet with shackles,
his
neck was put in irons,
19
till
what he foretold came to pass,
till
the word of the LORD proved him true.
20
The
king sent and released him,
the
ruler of peoples set him free.
21
He
made him master of his household,
ruler
over all he possessed,
22
to
instruct his princes as he pleased
and
teach his elders wisdom.
23
Then
Israel entered Egypt;
Jacob
lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
24
The
LORD made his people very fruitful;
he
made them too numerous for their foes,
25
whose
hearts he turned to hate his people,
to
conspire against his servants.
26
He
sent Moses his servant,
and
Aaron, whom he had chosen.
27They
performed his miraculous signs among them,
his
wonders in the land of Ham.
28
He
sent darkness and made the land dark--
for
had they not rebelled against his words?
29
He
turned their waters into blood,
causing
their fish to die.
30
Their
land teemed with frogs,
which
went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
31
He
spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
and
gnats throughout their country.
32
He
turned their rain into hail,
with
lightning throughout their land; 6
33
he
struck down their vines and fig trees
and
shattered the trees of their country.
34
He
spoke, and the locusts came,
grasshoppers
without number;
35
they
ate up every green thing in their land,
ate
up the produce of their soil.
36
Then
he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the
firstfruits of all their manhood.
37
He
brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,
and
from among their tribes no one faltered.
38
Egypt
was glad when they left,
because
dread of Israel had fallen on them.
39
He
spread out a cloud as a covering,
and
a fire to give light at night.
40
They
asked, and he brought them quail
and
satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41
He
opened the rock, and water gushed out;
like
a river it flowed in the desert.
42
For
he remembered his holy promise
given
to his servant Abraham.
43
He
brought out his people with rejoicing,
his
chosen ones with shouts of joy;
44
he
gave them the lands of the nations,
and
they fell heir to what others had toiled for--
45
that
they might keep his precepts
and
observe his laws.
PSALMS:
135
1
Praise
the LORD. A
Praise
the name of the LORD;
praise
him, you servants of the LORD,
2
you
who minister in the house of the LORD,
in
the courts of the house of our God.
3
Praise
the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing
praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
4
For
the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel
to be his treasured possession.
5
I
know that the LORD is great,
that
our Lord is greater than all gods.
6
The
LORD does whatever pleases him,
in
the heavens and on the earth,
in
the seas and all their depths.
7
He
makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he
sends lightning with the rain
and
brings out the wind from his storehouses.
8
He
struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
the
firstborn of men and animals.
9
He
sent his signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
against
Pharaoh and all his servants.
10
He
struck down many nations
and
killed mighty kings--
11
Sihon
king of the Amorites,
Og
king of Bashan
and
all the kings of Canaan--
12
and
he gave their land as an inheritance,
an
inheritance to his people Israel. 8
13
Your
name, O LORD, endures forever,
your
renown, O LORD, through all generations.
14
For
the LORD will vindicate his people
and
have compassion on his servants.
15
The
idols of the nations are silver and gold,
made
by the hands of men.
16
They
have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes,
but they cannot see;
17
they
have ears, but cannot hear,
nor
is there breath in their mouths.
18
Those
who make them will be like them,
and
so will all who trust in them.
19
O
house of Israel, praise the LORD;
O
house of Aaron, praise the LORD;
20
O
house of Levi, praise the LORD;
you
who fear him, praise the LORD.
21
Praise
be to the LORD from Zion,
to
him who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise
the LORD. 9
OLD
TESTAMENT:
GENESIS 8:1 - 10:32
8
1
But
God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that
were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the
waters receded. 2
Now
the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been
closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3
The
water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and
fifty days the water had gone down, 4
and
on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on
the mountains of Ararat. 5
The
waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first
day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6
After
forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7
and
sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water
had dried up from the earth.
8
Then
he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface
of the ground. 9
But
the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water
over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark.
He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to
himself in the ark. 10
He
waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11
When
the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a
freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded
from the earth. 12
He
waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it
did not return to him.
13
By
the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first
year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the
covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14
By
the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely
dry.
15
Then
God said to Noah, 16
"Come
out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17
Bring
out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the
animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they
can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon
it."
18
So
Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons'
wives. 19
All
the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all
the birds--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ark,
one kind after another.
20
Then
Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean
animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21
The
LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never
again will I curse the ground because of man, even though A
every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.
And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
22
"As
long as the earth endures,
seedtime
and harvest,
cold
and heat,
day
and night
will
never cease."
9
1
Then
God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be
fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
2
The
fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and
all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the
ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your
hands.
3
Everything
that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the
green plants, I now give you everything.
4
"But
you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
5
And
for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand
an accounting from every animal.
And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of
his fellow man.
6
"Whoever
sheds the blood of man,
by
man shall his blood be shed;
for
in the image of God
has
God made man.
7
As
for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth
and increase upon it."
8
Then
God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9
"I
now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after
you 10
and
with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the
livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the
ark with you--every living creature on earth.
11
I
establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off
by the waters of a flood;
never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12
And
God said, "This
is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every
living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13
I
have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the
covenant between me and the earth. 14
Whenever
I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15
I
will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures
of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy
all life.
16
Whenever
the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the
everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every
kind on the earth."
11
17
So
God said to Noah, "This
is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all
life on the earth."
18
The
sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.
(Ham
was the father of Canaan.)
19
These
were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were
scattered over the earth.
20
Noah,
a man of the soil, proceeded A
to plant a vineyard.
21
When
he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside
his tent.
22
Ham,
the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two
brothers outside.
23
But
Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders;
then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness.
Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see
their father's nakedness.
24
When
Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done
to him,
25
he
said,
"Cursed
be Canaan!
The
lowest of slaves
will
he be to his brothers."
26
He
also said,
"Blessed
be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May
Canaan be the slave of Shem.
B
27
May
God extend the territory of Japheth C;
may
Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and
may Canaan be his D
slave."
28
After
the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29
Altogether,
Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.
10
1
This
is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves
had sons after the flood.
2
The
sons A
of Japheth:
Gomer,
Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
3
The
sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz,
Riphath and Togarmah.
Elishah,
Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. B
5
(From
these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their
clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
6
The
sons of Ham:
Cush,
Mizraim, C
Put and Canaan.
7
The
sons of Cush:
Seba,
Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca.
The
sons of Raamah:
Sheba
and Dedan.
8
Cush
was the father D
of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.
9
He
was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like
Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." 10
The
first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh,
in E
Shinar. F
11
From
that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, G
Calah 12
and
Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13
Mizraim
was the father of
the
Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14
Pathrusites,
Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
15
Canaan
was the father of
Sidon
his firstborn, H
and of the Hittites, 16
Jebusites,
Amorites, Girgashites, 17Hivites,
Arkites, Sinites, 18
Arvadites,
Zemarites and Hamathites.
Later
the Canaanite clans scattered 19
and
the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza,
and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20
These
are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their
territories and nations.
21
Sons
were also born to Shem, whose older brother was I
Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber. 13
22
The
sons of Shem:
Elam,
Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.
23
The
sons of Aram:
Uz,
Hul, Gether and Meshech. J
24
Arphaxad
was the father of K
Shelah,
and
Shelah the father of Eber.
25
Two
sons were born to Eber:
One
was named Peleg, L
because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named
Joktan.
26
Joktan
was the father of
Almodad,
Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27
Hadoram,
Uzal, Diklah, 28
Obal,
Abimael, Sheba, 29
Ophir,
Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
30
The
region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the
eastern hill country.
31
These
are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their
territories and nations.
32
These
are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent,
within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the
earth after the flood. 14
NEW
TESTAMENT:
MATTHEW 4:12 - 25
12
When
Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he returned to Galilee.
13
Leaving
Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in
the area of Zebulun and Naphtali—14
to
fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:
15
"Land
of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
the
way to the sea, along the Jordan,
Galilee
of the Gentiles--
16
the
people living in darkness
have
seen a great light;
on
those living in the land of the shadow of death
a
light has dawned."
E
17
From
that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent,
for the kingdom of heaven is near."
18
As
Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers,
Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net
into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19
"Come,
follow me,"
Jesus said, "and
I will make you fishers of men."
20
At
once they left their nets and followed him.
21
Going
on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and
his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee,
preparing their nets. Jesus called them, 22
and
immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
23
Jesus
went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the
good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness
among the people.
24
News
about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who
were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the
demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he
healed them. 25
Large
crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, F
Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him. 15
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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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