Bible Reading for December 18 - 20
World English Bible
Dec.
18
Amos
5-9
Amo
5:1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you,
O house of Israel.
Amo
5:2 "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more.
She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."
Amo
5:3 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a
thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one
hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
Amo
5:4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and
you will live;
Amo
5:5 but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to
Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel
shall come to nothing.
Amo
5:6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in
the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it
in Bethel.
Amo
5:7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to
the earth:
Amo
5:8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow
of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who
calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of
the earth, Yahweh is his name,
Amo
5:9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction
comes on the fortress.
Amo
5:10 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who
speaks blamelessly.
Amo
5:11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes
from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will
not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall
not drink their wine.
Amo
5:12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your
sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside
the needy in the courts.
Amo
5:13 Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it
is an evil time.
Amo
5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the
God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
Amo
5:15 Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It
may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the
remnant of Joseph."
Amo
5:16 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord:
"Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all
the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
Amo
5:17 In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through
the midst of you," says Yahweh.
Amo
5:18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long
for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Amo
5:19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went
into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
Amo
5:20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very
dark, and no brightness in it?
Amo
5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn
assemblies.
Amo
5:22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal
offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace
offerings of your fat animals.
Amo
5:23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to
the music of your harps.
Amo
5:24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a
mighty stream.
Amo
5:25 "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the
wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
Amo
5:26 You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your
images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
Amo
5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.
Amo
6:1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are
secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of
the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Amo
6:2 Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great;
then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these
kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?
Amo
6:3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of
violence to come near;
Amo
6:4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their
couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of
the midst of the stall;
Amo
6:5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves
instruments of music, like David;
Amo
6:6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best
oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amo
6:7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go
captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
Amo
6:8 "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh,
the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his
fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in
it.
Amo
6:9 It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they
shall die.
Amo
6:10 "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him,
to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the
innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he
says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the
name of Yahweh.'
Amo
6:11 "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be
smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
Amo
6:12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with
oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of
righteousness into bitterness;
Amo
6:13 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we
taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
Amo
6:14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of
Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will
afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."
Amo
7:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in
the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it
was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
Amo
7:2 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of
the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How
could Jacob stand? For he is small."
Amo
7:3 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be,"
says Yahweh.
Amo
7:4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh
called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and
would have devoured the land.
Amo
7:5 Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob
stand? For he is small."
Amo
7:6 Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be,"
says the Lord Yahweh.
Amo
7:7 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made
by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
Amo
7:8 Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A
plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a
plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by
them any more.
Amo
7:9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of
Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of
Jeroboam with the sword."
Amo
7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of
the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
Amo
7:11 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel
shall surely be led away captive out of his land.' "
Amo
7:12 Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into
the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
Amo
7:13 but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the
king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
Amo
7:14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was
I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore
figs;
Amo
7:15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to
me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
Amo
7:16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't
prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of
Isaac.'
Amo
7:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in
the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in
a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive
out of his land.' "
Amo
8:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer
fruit.
Amo
8:2 He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A
basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end
has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
Amo
8:3 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says
the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place
they will throw them out with silence.
Amo
8:4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the
poor of the land to fail,
Amo
8:5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small,
and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Amo
8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of
shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?' "
Amo
8:7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will
never forget any of their works.
Amo
8:8 Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells
in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be
stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Amo
8:9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that
I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth
in the clear day.
Amo
8:10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an
only son, and its end like a bitter day.
Amo
8:11 Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I
will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst
for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh.
Amo
8:12 They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to
the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh,
and will not find it.
Amo
8:13 In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint
for thirst.
Amo
8:14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god,
Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall,
and never rise up again."
Amo
9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike
the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break
them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last
of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and
there shall not one of them escape.
Amo
9:2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and
though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
Amo
9:3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search
and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the
bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite
them.
Amo
9:4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will
command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them
for evil, and not for good.
Amo
9:5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and
it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up
wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Amo
9:6 It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded
his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and
pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
Amo
9:7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children
of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out
of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the
Syrians from Kir?
Amo
9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that
I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.
Amo
9:9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of
Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not
the least kernel will fall on the earth.
Amo
9:10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say,
'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.'
Amo
9:11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen,
and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will
build it as in the days of old;
Amo
9:12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations
who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this.
Amo
9:13 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the
plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him
who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow
from the hills.
Amo
9:14 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they
will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant
vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens,
and eat the fruit of them.
Amo
9:15 I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be
plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says
Yahweh your God.
Dec.
19
Obadiah
Oba
1:1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about
Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among
the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in
battle.
Oba
1:2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly
despised.
Oba
1:3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the
clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart,
'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
Oba
1:4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is
set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says
Yahweh.
Oba
1:5 "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what
disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough?
If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning
grapes?
Oba
1:6 How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought
out!
Oba
1:7 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even
to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you,
and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare
under you. There is no understanding in him."
Oba
1:8 "Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the
wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
Oba
1:9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that
everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
Oba
1:10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover
you, and you will be cut off forever.
Oba
1:11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that
strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his
gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Oba
1:12 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster,
and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their
destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.
Oba
1:13 Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their
calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their
calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
Oba
1:14 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who
escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of
distress.
Oba
1:15 For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have
done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own
head.
Oba
1:16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the
nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and
will be as though they had not been.
Oba
1:17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will
be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
Oba
1:18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and
devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau."
Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
Oba
1:19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those
of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of
Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Oba
1:20 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are
among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the
captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities
of the Negev.
Oba
1:21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of
Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.
Dec.
20
Jonah
1-4
Jon
1:1 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Jon
1:2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against
it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
Jon
1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of
Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so
he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish
from the presence of Yahweh.
Jon
1:4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a
mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
Jon
1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god.
They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten
it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and
he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
Jon
1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do
you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will
notice us, so that we won't perish."
Jon
1:7 They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that
we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." So they cast
lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
Jon
1:8 Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this
evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What
is your country? Of what people are you?"
Jon
1:9 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God
of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
Jon
1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What
is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was
fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.
Jon
1:11 Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the
sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.
Jon
1:12 He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea.
Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this
great storm is on you."
Jon
1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land;
but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against
them.
Jon
1:14 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you,
Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, and don't
lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased
you."
Jon
1:15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea
ceased its raging.
Jon
1:16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a
sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
Jon
1:17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was
in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jon
2:1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
Jon
2:2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He
answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
Jon
2:3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The
flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over
me.
Jon
2:4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look
again toward your holy temple.'
Jon
2:5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around
me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
Jon
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me
in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my
God.
Jon
2:7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My
prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Jon
2:8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Jon
2:9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I
will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh."
Jon
2:10 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry
land.
Jon
3:1 The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Jon
3:2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it
the message that I give you."
Jon
3:3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of
Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days'
journey across.
Jon
3:4 Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried
out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown!"
Jon
3:5 The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of
them.
Jon
3:6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.
Jon
3:7 He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the
decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor
animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink
water;
Jon
3:8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and
let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his
evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
Jon
3:9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away
from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
Jon
3:10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God
relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he
didn't do it.
Jon
4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Jon
4:2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this
what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried
to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and
merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you
relent of doing harm.
Jon
4:3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it
is better for me to die than to live."
Jon
4:4 Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
Jon
4:5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the
city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade,
until he might see what would become of the city.
Jon
4:6 Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah,
that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his
discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
Jon
4:7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on
the vine, so that it withered.
Jon
4:8 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east
wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and
requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better
for me to die than to live."
Jon
4:9 God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about
the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to
death."
Jon
4:10 Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for
which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a
night, and perished in a night.
Jon
4:11 Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which
are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern
between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
livestock?"
Dec. 18
Jude
Jud 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who
are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
Jud 1:2
Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
Jud 1:3
Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common
salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend
earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the
saints.
Jud 1:4
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were
long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning
the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only
Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jud 1:5
Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the
Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward
destroyed those who didn't believe.
Jud 1:6
Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own
dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for
the judgment of the great day.
Jud 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in
the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and
gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the
punishment of eternal fire.
Jud 1:8
Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh,
despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
Jud 1:9
But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and
arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an
abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
Jud
1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What
they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they
are destroyed in these things.
Jud
1:11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran
riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's
rebellion.
Jud
1:12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they
feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds
without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jud
1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Jud
1:14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied,
saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy
ones,
Jud
1:15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of
all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly
way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him."
Jud
1:16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts
(and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to
gain advantage.
Jud
1:17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken
before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jud
1:18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be
mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
Jud
1:19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having
the Spirit.
Jud
1:20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Jud
1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Jud
1:22 On some have compassion, making a distinction,
Jud
1:23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating
even the clothing stained by the flesh.
Jud
1:24 Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to
present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
Jud
1:25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Dec. 19
Revelation
1
Rev 1:1
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show
to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and
made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Rev 1:2
who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
about everything that he saw.
Rev 1:3
Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the
prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is
at hand.
Rev 1:4
John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and
peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the
seven Spirits who are before his throne;
Rev 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the
dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us,
and washed us from our sins by his blood;
Rev 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to
him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Rev 1:7
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him,
including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will
mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
Rev 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who
is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
Rev 1:9
I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom,
and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called
Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Rev
1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a
loud voice, like a trumpet
Rev
1:11 saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the
seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis,
Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
Rev
1:12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I
saw seven golden lampstands.
Rev
1:13 And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed
with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around
his chest.
Rev
1:14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His
eyes were like a flame of fire.
Rev
1:15 His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined
in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
Rev
1:16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth
proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining
at its brightest.
Rev
1:17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his
right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and
the last,
Rev
1:18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive
forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
Rev
1:19 Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things
which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;
Rev
1:20 the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand,
and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of
the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.
Dec. 20
Revelation
2
Rev 2:1
"To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who
holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven
golden lampstands says these things:
Rev 2:2
"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that
you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call
themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
Rev 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have
not grown weary.
Rev 2:4
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
Rev 2:5
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the
first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your
lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
Rev 2:6
But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which
I also hate.
Rev 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of
life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
Rev 2:8
"To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first
and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
Rev 2:9
"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are
rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are
not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev
2:10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer.
Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you
may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful
to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Rev
2:11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.
Rev
2:12 "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He
who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
Rev
2:13 "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's
throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in
the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among
you, where Satan dwells.
Rev
2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there
some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a
stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
Rev
2:15 So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the
Nicolaitans likewise.
Rev
2:16 Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I
will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Rev
2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden
manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name
written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
Rev
2:18 "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The
Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are
like burnished brass, says these things:
Rev
2:19 "I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient
endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
Rev
2:20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman,
Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my
servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to
idols.
Rev
2:21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her
sexual immorality.
Rev
2:22 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit
adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her
works.
Rev
2:23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies
will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give
to each one of you according to your deeds.
Rev
2:24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as
don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep
things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on
you.
Rev
2:25 Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
Rev
2:26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him
I will give authority over the nations.
Rev
2:27 He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay
pots; as I also have received of my Father:
Rev
2:28 and I will give him the morning star.
Rev
2:29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies.
