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SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020
SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020
34 “I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.
35 “The Lord has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.
36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore him a son when she was old, and my master has given everything he owns to him.
37 My master made me promise with a vow to obey his command. He said, ‘Do not choose a wife for my son from the young women in the land of Canaan.
38 Instead, go to my father’s people, to my relatives, and choose a wife for him.’
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42 “When I came to the well today, I prayed, ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, please give me success in what I am doing.
43 Here I am at the well. When a young woman comes out to get water, I will ask her to give me a drink of water from her jar.
44 If she agrees and also offers to bring water for my camels, may she be the one that you have chosen as the wife for my master’s son.’
45 Before I had finished my silent prayer, Rebecca came with a water jar on her shoulder and went down to the well to get water. I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
46 She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels.
47 I asked her, ‘Who is your father?’ And she answered, ‘My father is Bethuel son of Nahor and Milcah.’ Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
48 I knelt down and worshipped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me straight to my master’s relative, where I found his daughter for my master’s son.
49 Now, if you intend to fulfil your responsibility towards my master and treat him fairly, please tell me; if not, say so, and I will decide what to do.”
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58 So they called Rebecca and asked, “Do you want to go with this man?” “Yes,” she answered.
59 So they let Rebecca and her old family servant go with Abraham’s servant and his men.
60 And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: “May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!”
61 Then Rebecca and her young women got ready and mounted the camels to go with Abraham’s servant, and they all started out.
62 Isaac had come into the wilderness of “The Well of the Living One who Sees Me” and was staying in the southern part of Canaan.
63 He went out in the early evening to take a walk in the fields and saw camels coming.
64 When Rebecca saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
65 and asked Abraham’s servant, “Who is that man walking towards us in the field?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her scarf and covered her face.
66 The servant told Isaac everything he had done.
67 Then Isaac brought Rebecca into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in, and she became his wife. Isaac loved Rebecca, and so he was comforted for the loss of his mother.
10 Bride of the king, listen to what I say— forget your people and your relatives.
11 Your beauty will make the king desire you; he is your master, so you must obey him.
12 The people of Tyre will bring you gifts; rich people will try to win your favour.
13 The princess is in the palace—how beautiful she is! Her gown is made of gold thread.
14 In her colourful gown she is led to the king, followed by her bridesmaids, and they also are brought to him.
15 With joy and gladness they come and enter the king’s palace.
16 You, my king, will have many sons to succeed your ancestors as kings, and you will make them rulers over the whole earth.
17 My song will keep your fame alive for ever, and everyone will praise you for all time to come.
15 I do not understand what I do; for I don’t do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.
16 Since what I do is what I don’t want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.
17 So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me.
18 I know that good does not live in me—that is, in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
19 I don’t do the good I want to do; instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do.
20 If I do what I don’t want to do, this means that I am no longer the one who does it; instead, it is the sin that lives in me.
21 So I find that this law is at work: when I want to do what is good, what is evil is the only choice I have.
22 My inner being delights in the law of God.
23 But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
24 What an unhappy man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is taking me to death?
25 Thanks be to God, who does this through our Lord Jesus Christ! This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God’s law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin.
16 “Now, to what can I compare the people of this day? They are like children sitting in the market place. One group shouts to the other,
17 ‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn’t dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn’t cry!’
18 When John came, he fasted and drank no wine, and everyone said, ‘He has a demon in him!’
19 When the Son of Man came, he ate and drank, and everyone said, ‘Look at this man! He is a glutton and a drinker, a friend of tax collectors and other outcasts!’ God’s wisdom, however, is shown to be true by its results.”
25 At that time Jesus said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned.
26 Yes, Father, this was how you wanted it to happen.
27 “My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28 “Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest.
30 For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light.”
SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2020
SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2020
19 This is the story of Abraham’s son Isaac.
20 Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban.
21 Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.
22 She was going to have twins, and before they were born, they struggled against each other in her womb. She said, “Why should something like this happen to me?” So she went to ask the Lord for an answer.
23 The Lord said to her, “Two nations are within you; You will give birth to two rival peoples. One will be stronger than the other; The older will serve the younger.”
24 The time came for her to give birth, and she had twin sons.
25 The first one was reddish, and his skin was like a hairy robe, so he was named Esau.
26 The second one was born holding on tightly to the heel of Esau, so he was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.
27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man who loved the outdoor life, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
28 Isaac preferred Esau, because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed, but Rebecca preferred Jacob.
29 One day while Jacob was cooking some bean soup, Esau came in from hunting. He was hungry
30 and said to Jacob, “I’m starving; give me some of that red stuff.” (That is why he was called Edom.)
31 Jacob answered, “I will give it to you if you give me your rights as the firstborn son.”
32 Esau said, “All right! I am about to die; what good will my rights do me then?”
33 Jacob answered, “First make a vow that you will give me your rights.” Esau made the vow and gave his rights to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave him some bread and some of the soup. He ate and drank and then got up and left. That was all Esau cared about his rights as the firstborn son.
105 Your word is a lamp to guide me and a light for my path.
106 I will keep my solemn promise to obey your just instructions.
107 My sufferings, Lord, are terrible indeed; keep me alive, as you have promised.
108 Accept my prayer of thanks, O Lord, and teach me your commands.
109 I am always ready to risk my life; I have not forgotten your law.
110 The wicked lay a trap for me, but I have not disobeyed your commands.
111 Your commandments are my eternal possession; they are the joy of my heart.
112 I have decided to obey your laws until the day I die.
1 There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit, which brings us life in union with Christ Jesus, has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3 What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like sinful human nature, to do away with sin.
4 God did this so that the righteous demands of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.
5 Those who live as their human nature tells them to, have their minds controlled by what human nature wants. Those who live as the Spirit tells them to, have their minds controlled by what the Spirit wants.
6 To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace.
7 And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God’s law, and in fact they cannot obey it.
8 Those who obey their human nature cannot please God.
9 But you do not live as your human nature tells you to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to—if, in fact, God’s Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ lives in you, the Spirit is life for you because you have been put right with God, even though your bodies are going to die because of sin.
11 If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.
1 That same day Jesus left the house and went to the lakeside, where he sat down to teach.
2 The crowd that gathered round him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.
3 He used parables to tell them many things. “Once there was a man who went out to sow corn.
4 As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
5 Some of it fell on rocky ground, where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn’t deep.
6 But when the sun came up, it burnt the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up.
7 Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up and choked the plants.
8 But some seeds fell in good soil, and the plants produced corn; some produced a hundred grains, others sixty, and others thirty.”
9 And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”
18 “Listen, then, and learn what the parable of the sower means.
19 Those who hear the message about the Kingdom but do not understand it are like the seeds that fell along the path. The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them.
20 The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it.
21 But it does not sink deep into them, and they don’t last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.
22 The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear the message; but the worries about this life and the love for riches choke the message, and they don’t bear fruit.
23 And the seeds sown in the good soil stand for those who hear the message and understand it: they bear fruit, some as much as a hundred, others sixty, and others thirty.”
SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2020
SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2020
10 Jacob left Beersheba and started towards Haran.
11 At sunset he came to a holy place and camped there. He lay down to sleep, resting his head on a stone.
12 He dreamt that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.
13 And there was the Lord standing beside him. “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham and Isaac,” he said. “I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.
14 They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.
15 Remember, I will be with you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you.”
16 Jacob woke up and said, “The Lord is here! He is in this place, and I didn’t know it!”
17 He was afraid and said, “What a terrifying place this is! It must be the house of God; it must be the gate that opens into heaven.”
18 Jacob got up early next morning, took the stone that was under his head, and set it up as a memorial. Then he poured olive oil on it to dedicate it to God.
19 He named the place Bethel. (The town there was once known as Luz.)
1 Lord, you have examined me and you know me.
2 You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.
3 You see me, whether I am working or resting; you know all my actions.
4 Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.
5 You are all round me on every side; you protect me with your power.
6 Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.
7 Where could I go to escape from you? Where could I get away from your presence?
8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there; if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.
9 If I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west,
10 you would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light round me to turn into night,
12 but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
23 Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.
24 Find out if there is any evil in me and guide me in the everlasting way.
12 So then, my brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to live as our human nature wants us to.
13 For if you live according to your human nature, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death your sinful actions, you will live.
14 Those who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s children.
15 For the Spirit that God has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead, the Spirit makes you God’s children, and by the Spirit’s power we cry out to God, “Father! my Father!”
16 God’s Spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that we are God’s children.
17 Since we are his children, we will possess the blessings he keeps for his people, and we will also possess with Christ what God has kept for him; for if we share Christ’s suffering, we will also share his glory.
18 I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
19 All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children.
20 For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope
21 that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.
23 But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God’s gifts also groan within ourselves, as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.
24 For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For which of us hopes for something we see?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man sowed good seed in his field.
25 One night, when everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
26 When the plants grew and the ears of corn began to form, then the weeds showed up.
27 The man’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, it was good seed you sowed in your field; where did the weeds come from?’
28 ‘It was some enemy who did this,’ he answered. ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ they asked him.
29 ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because as you gather the weeds you might pull up some of the wheat along with them.
30 Let the wheat and the weeds both grow together until harvest. Then I will tell the harvest workers to pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them, and then to gather in the wheat and put it in my barn.’ ”
36 When Jesus had left the crowd and gone indoors, his disciples came to him and said, “Tell us what the parable about the weeds in the field means.”
37 Jesus answered, “The man who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man;
38 the field is the world; the good seed is the people who belong to the Kingdom; the weeds are the people who belong to the Evil One;
39 and the enemy who sowed the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvest workers are angels.
40 Just as the weeds are gathered up and burnt in the fire, so the same thing will happen at the end of the age:
41 the Son of Man will send out his angels to gather up out of his Kingdom all those who cause people to sin and all others who do evil things,
42 and they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and grind their teeth.
43 Then God’s people will shine like the sun in their Father’s Kingdom. Listen, then, if you have ears!
SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020
SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020
15 Laban said to Jacob, “You shouldn’t work for me for nothing just because you are my relative. How much pay do you want?”
16 Laban had two daughters; the elder was named Leah, and the younger Rachel.
17 Leah had lovely eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
18 Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, “I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel.”
19 Laban answered, “I would rather give her to you than to anyone else; stay here with me.”
20 Jacob worked seven years so that he could have Rachel, and the time seemed like only a few days to him, because he loved her.
21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “The time is up; let me marry your daughter.”
22 So Laban gave a wedding feast and invited everyone.
23 But that night, instead of Rachel, he took Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had intercourse with her.
24 (Laban gave his slave woman Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maid.)
25 Not until the next morning did Jacob discover that it was Leah. He went to Laban and said, “Why did you do this to me? I worked to get Rachel. Why have you tricked me?”
26 Laban answered, “It is not the custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the elder.
27 Wait until the week’s marriage celebrations are over, and I will give you Rachel, if you will work for me another seven years.”
28 Jacob agreed, and when the week of marriage celebrations was over, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
1 Give thanks to the Lord, proclaim his greatness; tell the nations what he has done.
2 Sing praise to the Lord; tell of the wonderful things he has done.
3 Be glad that we belong to him; let all who worship him rejoice.
4 Go to the Lord for help; and worship him continually.
5 You descendants of Abraham, his servant; you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose: remember the miracles that God performed and the judgements that he gave.
7 The Lord is our God; his commands are for all the world.
8 He will keep his covenant for ever, his promises for a thousand generations.
9 He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.
10 The Lord made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last for ever.
11 “I will give you the land of Canaan,” he said. “It will be your own possession.”
26 In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express.
27 And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his people and in accordance with his will.
28 We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.
29 Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the eldest brother in a large family.
30 And so those whom God set apart, he called; and those he called, he put right with himself, and he shared his glory with them.
31 In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son—will he not also freely give us all things?
33 Who will accuse God’s chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!
34 Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right-hand side of God, pleading with him for us!
35 Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?
36 As the scripture says, “For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
38 For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future,
39 neither the world above nor the world below—there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.
31 Jesus told them another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man takes a mustard seed and sows it in his field.
32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up, it is the biggest of all plants. It becomes a tree, so that birds come and make their nests in its branches.”
33 Jesus told them still another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with forty litres of flour until the whole batch of dough rises.”
44 “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that field.
45 “Also, the Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man is looking for fine pearls,
46 and when he finds one that is unusually fine, he goes and sells everything he has, and buys that pearl.
47 “Also, the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Some fishermen throw their net out in the lake and catch all kinds of fish.
48 When the net is full, they pull it to shore and sit down to divide the fish: the good ones go into their buckets, the worthless ones are thrown away.
49 It will be like this at the end of the age: the angels will go out and gather up the evil people from among the good
50 and will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and grind their teeth.
51 “Do you understand these things?” Jesus asked them. “Yes,” they answered.
52 So he replied, “This means, then, that every teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who takes new and old things out of his storeroom.”