MATTHEW 11:16-19, 25-30 REST FOR THE WEARY
16 ‘To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the market-places and calling out to others:
View More16 ‘To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the market-places and calling out to others:
View More1. I will sing of the lovingkindness of the LORD forever; To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth. 2. For I have said, ``Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness." 3. ``I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant, 4. I will establish your seed forever And build up your throne to all generations." Selah. 5. The heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. 6. For who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD, 7. A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him? 8. O LORD God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. 9. You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them. 10. You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm. 11. The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them. 12. The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name. 13. You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted. 14. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You. 15. How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O LORD, they walk in the light of Your countenance. 16. In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted. 17. For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted. 18. For our shield belongs to the LORD, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
View More12. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13. and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16. Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? 17. But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 18. and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19. I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. 20. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
View More1. Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, ``Abraham!" And he said, ``Here I am." 2. He said, ``Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." 3. So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4. On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. 5. Abraham said to his young men, ``Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you." 6. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. 7. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, ``My father!" And he said, ``Here I am, my son." And he said, ``Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 8. Abraham said, ``God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together. 9. Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11. But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, ``Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, ``Here I am." 12. He said, ``Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me." 13. Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. 14. Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, ``In the mount of the LORD it will be provided."
View More7. It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 8. Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 9. ``Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." 10. So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, ``Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink." 11. As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, ``Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand." 12. But she said, ``As the LORD your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die." 13. Then Elijah said to her, ``Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. 14. ``For thus says the LORD God of Israel, `The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.'" 15. So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16. The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah.
View More31. ``But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. 32. ``All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33. and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. 34. ``Then the King will say to those on His right, `Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35. `For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; 36. naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.' 37. ``Then the righteous will answer Him, `Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? 38. `And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 39. `When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40. ``The King will answer and say to them, `Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'
View More46. An argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest. 47. But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side, 48. and said to them, ``Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great."
View More40. ``He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41. ``He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. 42. ``And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward."
View More7. Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Dishonor has covered my face. 8. I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons. 9. For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. 10. When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach. 11. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 12. Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards. 13. But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, at an acceptable time; O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with Your saving truth. 14. Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink; May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters. 15. May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit shut its mouth on me. 16. Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me, 17. And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; answer me quickly. 18. Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies!
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