Wednesday, March 22, 2034

^41:4Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to all futurity, I AM. ⁵The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together, ⁶every one judging for his neighbour and that to assist his brother: and one will say, ⁷The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

⁸But thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved: ⁹whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee. ¹⁰Fear not; for I am with thee: wander not; for I am thy God, who have strengthened thee; and I have helped thee, and have established thee with my just right hand.

¹¹Behold, all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all thine opponents shall perish. ¹²Thou shalt seek them, and thou shalt not find the men who shall insolently rage against thee: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against thee shall not be. ¹³For I am thy God, who holdeth thy right hand, who saith to thee, ¹⁴Fear not, Jacob, and thou Israel few in number; I have helped thee, saith thy God, he that redeems thee, O Israel.

^17:1And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless. ²And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. ³And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying, ⁴And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations. ⁵And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, for I have made thee a father of many nations.

⁶And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. ⁷And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God. ⁹And God said to Abraam, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations.

^15:20A wise son gladdens his father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother. ²¹The ways of a foolish man are void of sense; but a wise man proceeds on his way aright. ²²They that honour not councils put off deliberation; but counsel abides in the hearts of counsellors. ²³A bad man will by no means attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common weal. ²⁴The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell. ²⁵The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow.

²⁶An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honour. ²⁷A receiver of bribes destroys himself; but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe. ²⁸The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness; but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. ²⁹God is far from the ungodly; but he hearkens to the prayers of the righteous. ³⁰The eye that sees rightly rejoices the heart; and a good report fattens the bones. ³²He that rejects instruction hates himself; but he that minds reproofs loves his soul.

³³The fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom; and the highest honour will correspond therewith. ^16:2All the works of the humble man are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day. ⁵Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. ⁷The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. ⁸He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. ⁹All the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.

^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.

^41:4Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to all futurity, I AM. ⁵The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together, ⁶every one judging for his neighbour and that to assist his brother: and one will say, ⁷The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

⁸But thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved: ⁹whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee. ¹⁰Fear not; for I am with thee: wander not; for I am thy God, who have strengthened thee; and I have helped thee, and have established thee with my just right hand.

¹¹Behold, all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all thine opponents shall perish. ¹²Thou shalt seek them, and thou shalt not find the men who shall insolently rage against thee: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against thee shall not be. ¹³For I am thy God, who holdeth thy right hand, who saith to thee, ¹⁴Fear not, Jacob, and thou Israel few in number; I have helped thee, saith thy God, he that redeems thee, O Israel.

^17:1And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless. ²And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. ³And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying, ⁴And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations. ⁵And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, for I have made thee a father of many nations.

⁶And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. ⁷And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God. ⁹And God said to Abraam, Thou also shalt fully keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee for their generations.

^15:20A wise son gladdens his father; but a foolish son sneers at his mother. ²¹The ways of a foolish man are void of sense; but a wise man proceeds on his way aright. ²²They that honour not councils put off deliberation; but counsel abides in the hearts of counsellors. ²³A bad man will by no means attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common weal. ²⁴The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell. ²⁵The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow.

²⁶An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honour. ²⁷A receiver of bribes destroys himself; but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe. ²⁸The hearts of the righteous meditate faithfulness; but the mouth of the ungodly answers evil things. ²⁹God is far from the ungodly; but he hearkens to the prayers of the righteous. ³⁰The eye that sees rightly rejoices the heart; and a good report fattens the bones. ³²He that rejects instruction hates himself; but he that minds reproofs loves his soul.

³³The fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom; and the highest honour will correspond therewith. ^16:2All the works of the humble man are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day. ⁵Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. ⁷The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. ⁸He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. ⁹All the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.

^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.

^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.”