Monday, March 22, 2027

^4:2And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel. ³And it shall be, that the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem, even all that are appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy. ⁴For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning. ⁵And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence. ⁶And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding-place from inclemency of weather and from rain. ^5:1Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place. ²And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns. ³And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. ⁴What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns. ⁵And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down. ⁶And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. ⁷For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juda his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

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^3:21And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them. ²²And God said, Behold, Adam is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live for ever— ²³So the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Delight to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken. ²⁴And he cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight, and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life. ^4:1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God. ²And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. ³And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord. ⁴And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts, ⁵but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell. ⁶And the Lord God said to Cain, Why art thou become very sorrowful and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

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^3:34The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble. ³⁵The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted their own dishonour. ^4:1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ²For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law. ³For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother: ⁴who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not: ⁵and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. ⁶And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee. ⁸Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee; ⁹that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight. ¹⁰Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the resources of thy life may be many. ¹¹For I teach thee the ways of wisdom; and I cause thee to go in right paths. ¹²For when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not be distressed. ¹³Take hold of my instruction; let it not go,—but keep it for thyself for thy life. ¹⁴Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors. ¹⁵In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away. ¹⁶For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not. ¹⁷For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression. ¹⁸But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come. ¹⁹But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble. ²⁰My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words: ²¹that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart. ²²For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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^21:12But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. ¹³It will turn out as a testimony for you. ¹⁴Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, ¹⁵for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. ¹⁶You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. ¹⁷You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. ¹⁸And not a hair of your head will perish. ¹⁹“By your endurance you will win your lives.

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^4:2And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel. ³And it shall be, that the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem, even all that are appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy. ⁴For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning. ⁵And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence. ⁶And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding-place from inclemency of weather and from rain. ^5:1Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place. ²And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns. ³And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. ⁴What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns. ⁵And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down. ⁶And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. ⁷For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juda his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

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^3:21And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them. ²²And God said, Behold, Adam is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live for ever— ²³So the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Delight to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken. ²⁴And he cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight, and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life. ^4:1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God. ²And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. ³And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord. ⁴And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts, ⁵but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell. ⁶And the Lord God said to Cain, Why art thou become very sorrowful and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

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^3:34The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble. ³⁵The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted their own dishonour. ^4:1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ²For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law. ³For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother: ⁴who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not: ⁵and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. ⁶And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee. ⁸Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee; ⁹that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight. ¹⁰Hear, my son, and receive my words; and the years of thy life shall be increased, that the resources of thy life may be many. ¹¹For I teach thee the ways of wisdom; and I cause thee to go in right paths. ¹²For when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not be distressed. ¹³Take hold of my instruction; let it not go,—but keep it for thyself for thy life. ¹⁴Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors. ¹⁵In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away. ¹⁶For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not. ¹⁷For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression. ¹⁸But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come. ¹⁹But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble. ²⁰My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words: ²¹that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart. ²²For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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^43:9All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth. ¹⁰Be ye my witnesses, and I too am a witness, saith the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know, and believe, and understand that I am he: before me there was no other God, and after me there shall be none. ¹¹I am God; and beside me there is no Saviour. ¹²I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you: ye are my witnesses, and I am the Lord God, ¹³even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands: I will work, and who shall turn it back? ¹⁴Thus saith the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships.

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^5:15But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. ¹⁶Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them. ¹⁷He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies. ¹⁸He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true judgment instead of an helmet. ¹⁹He shall take holiness for an invincible shield. ²⁰His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise. ²¹Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark. ²²And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them. ²³Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty. ^6:1Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth. ²Give ear, ye that rule the people, and glory in the multitude of nations. ³For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels.

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^12:1Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, ²looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. ⁴You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. ⁵You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; ⁶for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.” ⁷It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? ⁸But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. ⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

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^20:1“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ²When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. ⁴He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way. ⁵Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. ⁶About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’ ⁷“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’ ⁸“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ ⁹“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius. ¹⁰When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius. ¹¹When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, ¹²saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’ ¹³“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. ¹⁵Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ ¹⁶So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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