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October 24 - Old & New Testament
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Jeremiah 18,19
The Potter and the Clay
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,2 "Arise and (C1)go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you."3 So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.4 But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,6 "Am I not able, house of Israel, to deal with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Behold, like the (C1)clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.7 "At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to (C1)uproot it, to tear it down, or to destroy it;8 (C1)if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will (C2)relent of the disaster that I planned to bring on it.9 "Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to (C1)build up or to plant it;10 if it does (C1)evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will (C2)relent of the good with which I said (F1)that I would bless it.11 "So now, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 'This is what the LORD says: "Behold, I am (C1)forming a disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Now (C2)turn back, each of you from his evil way, and (F1)correct your ways and your deeds!"'12 "But (C1)they will say, 'It's hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will (F1)persist in the (C2)stubbornness of his evil heart.'
13 "Therefore this is what the LORD says:
'(C1)Just ask among the nations,
Who ever heard anything like (F1)this?
The (C2)virgin of Israel
Has done a most (C3)appalling thing.
14 'Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the open country alone?
Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever dried up?
15 'For (C1)My people have forgotten Me,
(C2)They burn incense (F1)to worthless gods.
And they (F2)have stumbled in their ways,
In the (C3)ancient roads,
To walk on paths,
Not on a (C4)highway,
16 To make their land a (C1)desolation,
An object of perpetual (C2)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And (C3)shake his head.
17 'Like an (C1)east wind I will (C2)scatter them
Before the enemy;
I will (F1)show them (C3)My back and not My face
(C4)In the day of their disaster.'"
18 Then they said, "Come and let's (C1)devise plans against Jeremiah. Certainly the (C2)Law is not going to be lost by the priest, nor (C3)advice by the wise, nor the divine (C4)word by the prophet! Come, and let's (C5)strike at him with our tongue, and let's (C6)pay no attention to any of his words."
19 Give Your attention to me, LORD,
And listen to (F1)what my opponents are saying!
20 (C1)Should good be repaid with evil?
For they have (C2)dug a pit for (F1)me.
Remember how I (C3)stood before You
To speak good in their behalf,
So as to turn Your wrath away from them.
21 Therefore, (C1)give their children over to famine
And turn them over to the (F1)power of the sword;
And let their wives become (C2)childless and (C3)widowed.
Let their men also be slaughtered to death,
Their (C4)young men struck and killed by the sword in battle.
22 May a (C1)cry be heard from their houses
When You suddenly bring raiders upon them;
(C2)For they have dug a pit to capture me
And (C3)hidden snares for my feet.
23 But You, LORD, know
All their (F1)deadly schemes against me;
(C1)Do not (F2)forgive their wrongdoing
Or wipe out their sin from Your sight.
But may they be (F3)(C2)overthrown before You;
Deal with them in the (C3)time of Your anger!
The Broken Jar
1 This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a (C1)potter's earthenware (C2)jar, and take some of the (C3)elders of the people and some of the (F1)(C4)senior priests.2 "Then go out to the (C1)Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the (F1)Potsherd Gate, and (C2)proclaim there the words that I tell you,3 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, you (C1)kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "Behold I am going to bring a (C2)disaster upon this place, at which the (C3)ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.4 "Since they have (C1)abandoned Me and have (C2)made this place foreign, and have burned (F1)sacrifices in it to (C3)other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the (C4)blood of the innocent5 and have built the (C1)high places of Baal to burn their (C2)sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My (F1)mind;6 therefore, behold, (C1)days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called (C2)Topheth or (C3)the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter.7 "And I will (C1)frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and (C2)I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their (C3)carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.8 "I will also turn this city into an object of (C1)horror and (F1)hissing; (C2)everyone who passes by it will be appalled and (F2)hiss because of all its (F3)disasters.9 "And I will make them (C1)eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the siege and in the hardship with which their enemies and those who seek their life will torment them."'
10 "Then you are to break the (C1)jar in the sight of the men who accompany you,11 and say to them, 'This is what the LORD of armies says: "To the same extent I will (C1)break this people and this city, just as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will (C2)bury their dead in Topheth, (F1)because there is no other place for burial.12 "This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.13 "The (C1)houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be (C2)defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the (C3)houses on whose rooftops they burned (F1)sacrifices to (C4)all the heavenly (F2)lights and (C5)poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"
14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the (C1)courtyard of the LORD'S house and said to all the people,15 "This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: 'Behold, I am going to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it, because they have (C1)stiffened their necks so (C2)as not to listen to My words.'"
Colossians 3
Chapter 3
Put On the New Self
1 Therefore, if you have been (C1)raised with Christ, keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, (C2)seated at the right hand of God.2 (F1)(C1)Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.3 For you have (C1)died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.4 When Christ, (C1)who is our life, is revealed, (C2)then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
5 (C1)Therefore, (F1)treat (C2)the parts of your earthly body as dead to (C3)sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which (F2)amounts to idolatry.6 For it is because of these things that (C1)the wrath of God is coming (F1)upon the (F2)sons of disobedience,7 and (C1)in them you also once walked, when you were living (F1)in them.8 But now you also, (C1)rid yourselves of all of them: (C2)anger, wrath, malice, slander, and (C3)obscene speech from your mouth.9 (F1)(C1)Do not lie to one another, since you (C2)stripped off the old (F2)self with its evil practices,10 and have (C1)put on the new self, which is being (F1)(C2)renewed to a true knowledge (C3)according to the image of the One who (C4)created it—11 a renewal in which (C1)there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, (C2)circumcised and uncircumcised, (F1)(C3)barbarian, (F2)Scythian, (C4)slave, and free, but (C5)Christ is all, and in all.
12 So, as those who have been (C1)chosen of God, holy and beloved, (C2)put on a (C3)heart of compassion, kindness, (C4)humility, gentleness, and (F1)(C5)patience;13 (C1)bearing with one another, and (C2)forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; (C2)just as the Lord forgave you, so must you do also.14 In addition to all these things put on love, which is (F1)(C1)the perfect bond of (C2)unity.15 Let (C1)the peace of Christ, to which you were (F1)indeed called in (C2)one body, (F2)rule in your hearts; and (F3)be thankful.16 Let (C1)the word of (F1)Christ richly dwell within you, (F2)with all wisdom (C2)teaching and admonishing (F3)one another (C3)with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, (C4)singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.17 (C1)Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, (C2)giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
Family Relations
18 (C1)Wives, (C2)be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.19 (C1)Husbands, love your wives and do not become bitter against them.20 (C1)Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing (F1)to the Lord.21 (C1)Fathers, do not (F1)antagonize your children, so that they will not become discouraged.
22 (F1)(C1)Slaves, obey those who are your (F2)human masters in everything, (C2)not with (F3)eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.23 Whatever you do, do your work (F1)heartily, (C1)as for the Lord and not for people,24 (C1)knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the reward (F1)of (C2)the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you (C3)serve.25 For (C1)the one who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and (F1)(C2)that without partiality.
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