One Year Pray for America Bible - Flipbook - Page 64
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22 And
killed.
all nations will hate you
because you are my followers.* But
everyone who endures to the end will
be saved. 23 When you are persecuted
in one town, flee to the next. I tell you
the truth, the Son of Man* will return
before you have reached all the towns
of Israel.”
10:1 Greek unclean.
10:3 Other manuscripts read
Lebbaeus; still others read Lebbaeus who is called
Thaddaeus.
10:4 Greek the Cananean, an Aramaic
term for Jewish nationalists. 10:7 Or has come, or is
coming soon.
10:18 Or But this will be your testimony
against the rulers and other unbelievers.
10:22 Greek
on account of my name.
10:23 “Son of Man” is a title
Jesus used for himself.
PSALM 12:18
For the choir director: A psalm of David,
to be accompanied by an eight-stringed
instrument.*
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2
3
4
Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast
disappearing!
The faithful have vanished from
the earth!
Neighbors lie to each other,
speaking with flattering lips and
deceitful hearts.
May the Lord cut off their
flattering lips
and silence their boastful
tongues.
They say, “We will lie to our hearts’
content.
Our lips are our own—who can
stop us?”
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6
7
8
The Lord replies, “I have seen
violence done to the
helpless,
and I have heard the groans of
the poor.
Now I will rise up to rescue them,
as they have longed for me
to do.”
The Lord’s promises are pure,
like silver refined in a furnace,
purified seven times over.
Therefore, Lord, we know you will
protect the oppressed,
preserving them forever from
this lying generation,
even though the wicked strut
about,
and evil is praised throughout
the land.
12:title Hebrew according to the sheminith.
PROVERBS 3:1315
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14
15
Joyful is the person who finds
wisdom,
the one who gains
understanding.
For wisdom is more profitable
than silver,
and her wages are better than
gold.
Wisdom is more precious than
rubies;
nothing you desire can compare
with her.
Lord, David asked that you refresh his hope and bring
back the “sparkle” to his eyes (Psalm 13:3). I want that
for our leaders, Lord. Renew their strength and sense
of purpose. Help them find joy in serving those who
elected them to office. Amen.
GENESIS 31:17–32:12
So Jacob put his wives and children
on camels, 18 and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all
the belongings he had acquired in
Paddan-aram and set out for the land
of Canaan, where his father, Isaac,
lived. 19 At the time they left, Laban
was some distance away, shearing
his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s
household idols and took them with
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her. 20 Jacob outwitted Laban the Ar
amean, for they set out secretly and
never told Laban they were leaving.
21 So Jacob took all his possessions
with him and crossed the Euphrates
River,* heading for the hill country of
Gilead.
22 Three days later, Laban was told
that Jacob had fled. 23 So he gathered
a group of his relatives and set out in
hot pursuit. He caught up with Jacob
