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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ January 25th|january-25|<strong>The righteousness of God which is by faith of Je
January 26th|january-26|<strong>Let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. -- As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.+ +If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.+ +They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. -- Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. |Heb 13:13,14; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 1:7; 1 Pet 4:14; Acts 5:41; Heb 11:25,26|<strong>The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.</strong>+ +Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appear-ance of fire, and it had brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.+ +We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. -- It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.+ +They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more. -- They sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. |Phl 3:20,21; Ezek 1:26; 2 Cor 3:18; 1 John 3:2; Rev 7:16; Rev 15:3
January 27th|january-27|<strong>Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins: and in him is no sin.</strong>+ +God, ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. -- He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.+ +Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; ... but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. -- The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. |1 John 3:5; Heb 1:13; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 1:17; 2 Cor 5:14,15|<strong>I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.</strong>+ +For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.+ +If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin but now they have no cloke for their sin. That servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.+ +The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him. -- Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?+ +If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. |Deut 30:19; Ezek 18:32; John 15:22; Luke 12:47; Rom 6:23; John 3:36; Rom 6:16; John 12:26
January 28th|january-28|<strong>As thy days, so shall thy strength be.</strong>+ +When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. -- Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.The God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God. -- He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.+ +My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in re-proaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. -- O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. |Deut 33:25; Matt 13:11; Matt 6:34; Psa 68:35; Isa 40:29; 2 Cor 12:9,10; Phl 4:13; Judg 5:21|<strong>Awake, O north wind, and ... blow upon my garden, that the the spices thereof may flow out.</strong>+ +No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. -- The fruit of the Spirit.+ +He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.+ +Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.+ +Though [Jesus] were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the the things which he suffered. -- In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. |Song 4:16; Heb 12:11; Gal 5:22; Isa 27:8; Psa 103:13; 2 Cor 4:16; Heb 5:8; Heb 4:15
January 29th|january-29|<strong>Thou God seest me.</strong>+ +O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether ... Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto it.+ +The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. -- The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. -- God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.+ +Jesus ... knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man. -- Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. |Gen 16:13; Psa 139:1-4,6; Prov 15:3; Prov 5:21; Luke 16:15; 2 Chr 16:9; John 2:24,25; John 21:17|<strong>I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.</strong>+ +Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. -- It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.+ +I beseech you, ... brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable ser-vice. -- Jesus ... that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. -- Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. |Psa 86:12; Psa 50:23; Psa 92:1,2; Psa 150:6; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:12,15; Eph 5:20; Rev 5:12
January 29th|january-29|<strong>Thou God seest me.</strong>+ +O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether ... Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto it.+ +The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. -- The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. -- God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.+ +Jesus ... knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in man. -- Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. |Gen 16:13; Psa 139:1-4,6; Prov 15:3; Prov 5:21; Luke 16:15; 2 Chr 16:9; John 2:24,25; John 21:17|<strong>I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.</strong>+ +Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me. -- It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.+ +I beseech you, ... brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. -- Jesus ... that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. -- Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. |Psa 86:12; Psa 50:23; Psa 92:1,2; Psa 150:6; Rom 12:1; Heb 13:12,15; Eph 5:20; Rev 5:12
January 30th|january-30|<strong>Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.</strong>+ +If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. -- Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. -- Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness.+ +Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. -- Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. -- Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. |Heb 12:1,2; Luke 9:23; Luke 14:33; Rom 13:12; 1 Cor 9:25,27; Phl 3:13,14; Hos 6:3|<strong>It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.</strong>+ +Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.+ +We have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us; and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.+ +Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.+ +I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. -- Humble yourselves, therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. |Lam 3:27; Prov 22:6; Heb 12:9,10; Psa 119:67,71; Jer 29:11; 1 Pet 5:6
January 31st|january-31|<strong>If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you;</strong>+ +those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.+ +Fight the good fight of faith. -- The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, ... and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.+ +Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.+ +The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. -- I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. -- We are more than conquerors through him that loved us. |Num 33:55; 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Cor 10:4,5; Rom 8:12,13; Gal 5:17; Rom 7:23; Rom 8:37|<strong>If a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him?</strong>+ +If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world. -- Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.+ +He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.+ +What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. |1 Sam 2:25; 1 John 2:1,2; Rom 3:25,26; Job 33:24; Rom 8:31,33,34
February 1st|february-01|<strong>Whom having not seen, ye love.</strong>+ +We walk by faith, not by sight. -- We love him, because he first loved us. -- And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. -- In whom ye trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. -- God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.+ +If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?+ +Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. -- Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. |1 Pet 1:8; 2 Cor 5:7,1 John 4:19,1 John 4:16; Eph L:13; Col 1:27; 1 John 4:20; John 20:29; Psa 2:12|<strong>The Lord Our Righteousness.</strong>+ +We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.+ +I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. -- I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.+ +Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. -- To her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.+ +I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ... that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. |Jer 23:6; Isa 64:6; Psa 71:16; Isa 61:10; Luke 15:22; Rev 19:8; Phl 3:8,9
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September 8th|september-08|<strong>Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting</strong>.+ +The LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him, actions are weighed. -- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. -- The LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. -- Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.+ +What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? -- What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.+ +Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts. -- Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing. |Dan 5:27; 1 Sam 2:3; Luke 16:15; 1 Sam 16:7; Gal 6:7,8; Matt 16:26; Phl 3:7; Psa 51:6; Psa 17:3|<strong>Christ the firstfruits.</strong>+ +Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. -- If the firstfruit be holy the lump is also holy : and if the root be holy, so are the branches. -- Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. -- If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. -- The Lord Jesus Christ ... shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.+ +The firstborn from the dead. -- If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken our mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.+ +I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. |1 Cor 15:23; John 12:24; Rom 11:16; 1 Cor 15:20; Rom 6:5; Phl 3:20,21; Col 1:18; Rom 8:11; John 11:25
September 9th|september-09|<strong>He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.</strong>+ +Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent.+ +Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. -- When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. -- I am the Lord thy God ... open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.+ +Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. -- I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. |Luke 1:53; Rev 3:17-19; Matt 5:6; Isa 41:17; Psa 81:10; Isa 55:2; John 6:35|<strong>My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.</strong>+ +When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.+ +The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.+ +A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. -- Although he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.+ +Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise: when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. -- He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.+ +If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. |Psa 73:2; Psa 94:18; Luke 22:31,32; Prov 24:16; Psa 37:24; Mic 7:8; Job 5:19; 1 John 2:1; Heb 7:25
September 10th|september-10|<strong>I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them.</strong>+ +A new heart ... will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. -- Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.+ +That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.+ +I ... beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, ... endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. |Jer 32:39; Ezek 36:26; Psa 25:8-10; John 17:21; Eph 4:1-6|<strong>They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. (Or, change strength.)</strong>+ +When I am weak, then am I strong. -- God shall be my strength. -- He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. -- Let him take hold of my strength.+ +Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee. -- The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.+ +I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.+ +Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. -- Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. |Isa 40:31; 2 Cor 12:10; Isa 49:5; 2 Cor 12:9; Isa 27:5; Psa 55:22; Gen 49:24; Gen 32:26; 1 Sam 17:45; Psa 35:1,2
September 11th|september-11|<strong>Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.</strong>+ +Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.+ +Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.+ +What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what com-munion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? -- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. The world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.+ +In time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. -- Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, ... as the truth is in Jesus. |Rom 12:2; Exo 23:2; Jas 4:4; 2 Cor 6:14-16; 1 John 2:15,17; Eph 2:2; Eph 4:20,21|<strong>Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.</strong>+ +In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground. -- We commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. -- Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands.+ +Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. -- The night cometh when no man can work.+ +Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.+ +There remaineth ... a rest to the people of God. -- Unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. -- This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. |Psa 104:23; Gen 3:19; 2 Thes 3:10; 1 Thes 4:11; Eccl 9:10; John 9:4; Gal 6:9; 1 Cor 15:58; Heb 4:9; Matt 20:12; Isa 28:12
September 12th|september-12|<strong>I have seen his ways, and will heal him.</strong>+ +I am the LORD that healeth thee.+ +O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. -- Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. -- All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.+ +Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. -- He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. -- He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. -- Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. |Isa 57:18; Exo 15:26; Psa 139:1-3; Psa 90:8; Heb 4:13; Isa 1:18; Job 33:24; Isa 53:5; Isa 61:1; Mark 5:34|<strong>The Lord taketh my part.</strong>+ +The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.+ +When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. -- There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able: but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.+ +Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and he will deliver us. |Psa 118:7; Psa 20:1,2,5,7,8; Isa 59:19; 1 Cor 10:13; Rom 8:31; Psa 118:6; Dan 3:17
September 11th|september-11|<strong>Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.</strong>+ +Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.+ +Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.+ +What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? -- Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. The world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.+ +In time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. -- Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, ... as the truth is in Jesus. |Rom 12:2; Exo 23:2; Jas 4:4; 2 Cor 6:14-16; 1 John 2:15,17; Eph 2:2; Eph 4:20,21|<strong>Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.</strong>+ +In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground. -- We commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. -- Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands.+ +Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. -- The night cometh when no man can work.+ +Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.+ +There remaineth ... a rest to the people of God. -- Unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. -- This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. |Psa 104:23; Gen 3:19; 2 Thes 3:10; 1 Thes 4:11; Eccl 9:10; John 9:4; Gal 6:9; 1 Cor 15:58; Heb 4:9; Matt 20:12; Isa 28:12
September 12th|september-12|<strong>I have seen his ways, and will heal him.</strong>+ +I am the LORD that healeth thee.+ +O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. -- Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. -- All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.+ +Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. -- He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. -- He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. -- Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. |Isa 57:18; Exo 15:26; Psa 139:1-3; Psa 90:8; Heb 4:13; Isa 1:18; Job 33:24; Isa 53:5; Isa 61:1; Mark 5:34|<strong>The Lord taketh my part.</strong>+ +The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.+ +When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. -- There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able: but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.+ +Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and he will deliver us. |Psa 118:7; Psa 20:1,2,5,7,8; Isa 59:19; 1 Cor 10:13; Rom 8:31; Psa 118:6; Dan 3:17
September 13th|september-13|<strong>If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.</strong>+ +My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is; to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.+ +Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. -- The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. -- Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. -- My blood is drink indeed.+ +Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. |John 7:37; Psa 84:2; Psa 63:1,2; Isa 55:1; Rev 22:17; John 4:14; John 6:55; Song 5:1|<strong>Ye are the salt of the earth</strong>.+ +That which is not corruptible. -- Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. -- He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. -- The children of God, being the children of the resurrection. -- The uncorruptible God.+ +If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. -- It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.+ +Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. -- Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. |Matt 5:13; 1 Pet 3:4; 1 Pet 1:23; John 11:25; Luke 20:36; Rom 1:23; Rom 5:9-11; 1 Cor 15:42; Mark 9:50; Eph 4:29
September 14th|september-14|<strong>I, even I, am he that comforteth you.</strong>+ +Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. -- Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. -- As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. -- Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.+ +Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.+ +Another Comforter ... even the Spirit of truth. -- The Spirit ... helpeth our infirmities.+ +God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. |Isa 51:12; 2 Cor 1:3,4; Psa 103:3,14; Isa 66:13; 1 Pet 5:7; Psa 86:15; John 14:16,17; Rom 8:26; Rev 21:4|<strong>Ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son</strong>.+ +He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. -- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.+ +Be ye ... followers of God, as dear children. -- If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.+ +The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.+ +Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. -- These things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. -- As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. |1 Cor 1:9; 2 Pet 1:17; 1 John 3:1; Eph 5:1; Rom 8:17; Heb 1:3; Matt 5:16; Heb 12:2; John 17:13; 2 Cor 1:5
September 15th|september-15|<strong>Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.</strong>+ +What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. -- My brethren, ye ... are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. -- Being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ. -- The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. -- Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. -- If the Son ... shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.+ +Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. |Rom 6:14; Rom 6:15; Rom 7:4; 1 Cor 9:21; 1 Cor 15:56,57; Rom 8:2; John 8:34; John 8:36; Gal 5:1|<strong>A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.</strong>+ +No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.+ +He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. -- Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. -- What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.+ +Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive: but speaking the truth in love, ... grow up into him in all things which is the head, even Christ.+ +Abide in me. -- Be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. |Jas 1:8; Luke 9:62; Heb 11:6; Jas 1:6,7; Mark 11:24; Eph 4:14,15; John 15:4; 1 Cor 15:58
September 16th|september-16|<strong>The Lord pondereth the hearts.</strong>+ +The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. -- The LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy. -- Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.+ +Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. -- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.+ +Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. -- When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. -- He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.+ +The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. |Prov 21:2; Psa 1:6; Num 16:5; Matt 6:4; Psa 139:23,24; 1 John 4:18; Psa 38:9; Psa 142:3; Rom 8:27; 2 Tim 2:19|<strong>Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.</strong>+ +No man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation. -- In me ye ... have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- The night is far spent, the day is at hand. -- He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning withont clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.+ +He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. -- There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. -- We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. |Psa 30:5; 1 Thes 3:3,4; John 16:33; Psa 17:15; Rom 13:12; 2 Sam 23:4; Isa 25:8; Rev 21:4; 1 Thes 4:17,18
September 16th|september-16|<strong>The Lord pondereth the hearts.</strong>+ +The LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. -- The LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy. -- Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.+ +Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. -- There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.+ +Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. -- When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. -- He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.+ +The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. |Prov 21:2; Psa 1:6; Num 16:5; Matt 6:4; Psa 139:23,24; 1 John 4:18; Psa 38:9; Psa 142:3; Rom 8:27; 2 Tim 2:19|<strong>Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.</strong>+ +No man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation. -- In me ye ... have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- The night is far spent, the day is at hand. -- He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.+ +He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. -- There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. -- We which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. |Psa 30:5; 1 Thes 3:3,4; John 16:33; Psa 17:15; Rom 13:12; 2 Sam 23:4; Isa 25:8; Rev 21:4; 1 Thes 4:17,18
September 17th|september-17|<strong>A bruised reed shall he not break.</strong>+ +The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. -- He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. -- Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.+ +I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. -- Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. -- Behold, your God ... will come and save you. |Matt 12:20; Psa 51:17; Psa 147:3; Isa 57:15,16; Ezek 34:16; Heb 12:12,13; Isa 35:4|<strong>O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.</strong>+ +When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: he saith, ... Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.+ +The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. --I believed, and therefore have I spoken. -- I know whom I have believed. -- I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.+ +The goodness of God. -- He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?+ +As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.+ +Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy. |Psa 34:8; John 2:9,10; Job 34:3; 2 Cor 4:13; 2 Tim 1:12; Song 2:3; Rom 2:4; Rom 8:32; 1 Pet 2:2,3; Psa 5:11
September 18th|september-18|<strong>Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.</strong>+ +Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. -- It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. -- I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. -- We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. -- How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. -- O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. |Psa 119:18; Luke 24:45; Matt 13:11; Matt 11:25,26; 1 Cor 2:12; Psa 139:17,18; Rom 11:33,34,36|<strong>En hakkore. (Or, The well of him that cried.)</strong>+ +If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. -- If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive.+ +Prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. -- If ye, ... being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? -- Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.+ +Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. -- Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. |Judg 15:19; John 4:10; John 7:37,39; Mal 3:10; Luke 11:13; Luke 11:9; Gal 4:6; Rom 8:15
September 19th|september-19|<strong>The God of all grace.</strong>+ +I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. -- He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. -- Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. -- Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. -- Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. -- Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. -- As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. -- He giveth more grace.+ +Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. |1 Pet 5:10; Exo 33:19; Job 33:24; Rom 3:24,25; John 1:17; Eph 2:8; 1 Tim 1:2; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10; Jas 4:6; 2 Pet 3:18|<strong>I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord.</strong>+ +As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.+ +Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. -- Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.+ +O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. -- Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. -- Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. |Psa 121:1,2; Psa 125:2; Psa 123:1,2; Psa 63:7; 2 Chr 20:12; Psa 25:15; Psa 124:8
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September 26th|september-26|<strong>A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.</strong>+ +Him that judgeth righteously. -- We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. -- Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. -- The soul that sinneth it shall die.+ +Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd. -- The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. -- Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. -- Mercy rejoiceth against judgment. -- The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.+ +A just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. -- Just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. -- Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. |Deut 32:4; 1 Pet 2:23; 2 Cor 5:10; Rom 14:12; Ezek 18:4; Zech 13:7; Isa 53:6; Psa 85:10; Isa 2:13; Rom 6:23; Isa 45:21; Rom 3:26; Rom 3:24|<strong>Death is swallowed up in victory.</strong>+ +Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +Forasmuch ... as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.+ +If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.+ +Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.+ +In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. |1 Cor 15:54; 1 Cor 15:57; Heb 2:14,15; Rom 6:8-10; Rom 6:11; Rom 8:37
September 27th|september-27|<strong>Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.</strong>+ +Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.+ +O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people. -- Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. -- It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.+ +Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |1 Pet 5:6; Prov 16:5; Isa 64:8,9; Jer 31:18,19; Lam 3:27; Job 5:6,7,|<strong>Yea, hath God said?</strong>+ +When the tempter came to Jesus, he said, If thou be the Son of God. -- Jesus said unto him, It is written, ... it is written, ... it is written. -- Then the devil leaveth him.+ +I may not return with thee. For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there. He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. So he went back with him. The man of God ... was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD. -- Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. -- Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. |Gen 3:1; Matt 4:3; Matt 4:4,7,10; Matt 4:11; 1 Kgs 13:16-19,26; Gal 1:8; Psa 119:11
September 28th|september-28|<strong>They shall put my name upon the childen of Isael; and I will bless them.</strong>+ +O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. -- We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.+ +All people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. -- The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.+ +O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. -- Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? -- The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. |Num 6:27; Isa 26:13; Isa 63:19; Deut 28:10; 1 Sam 12:22; Dan 9:19; Psa 79:9,10; Prov 18:10|<strong>The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.</strong>+ +The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. -- He left not himself without witness. -- Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.+ +When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?+ +There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. -- They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. |Psa 19:1; Rom 1:20; Acts 14:17; Psa 19:2,3; Psa 8:3,4; 1 Cor 15:41,42; Dan 12:3
September 29th|september-29|<strong>Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.</strong>+ +The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. -- Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. -- Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. -- For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. -- Christ ... suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.+ +Ye also ought to wash one anothers feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. -- We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. |1 John 3:16; Eph 3:19; John 15:13; 2 Cor 8:9; 1 John 4:11; Eph 4:32; Col 3:13; Mark 10:4,5; 1 Pet 2:21; John 13:14,15; 1 John 3:16|<strong>What things soever the Father doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.</strong>+ +The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. -- I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.+ +Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weak-ness.+ +Them that are sanctified by God the Father. -- He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.+ +Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. -- The fulness of him that filleth all in all.+ +I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. -- This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.+ +Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. |John 5:19; Prov 2:6; Luke 21:15; Psa 27:14; 2 Cor 12:9; Jude 1; Heb 2:11; Jer 23:24; Eph 1:23; Isa 43:11; John 4:42; Tit 1:4
September 30th|september-30|<strong>He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</strong>+ +He knoweth our frame. -- He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.+ +The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.+ +He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. -- I ... will refine them as silver is refined, ... they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, the LORD is my God. |Job 23:10; Psa 103:14; Lam 3:33; 2 Tim 2:19-21; Mal 3:3; Zech 13:9|<strong>Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.</strong>+ +Moses said unto the LORD, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. -- He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.+ +The meek will he guide in judgment; and the meek will he teach his way. What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall teach in the way that he shall choose. -- Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.+ +Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. -- I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. -- The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. |Psa 25:4; Exo 33:12-14; Psa 103:7; Psa 25:9,12; Prov 3:5,6; Psa 16:11; Psa 32:8; Prov 4:18
September 29th|september-29|<strong>Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.</strong>+ +The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. -- Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. -- Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. -- For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. -- Christ ... suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.+ +Ye also ought to wash one anothers feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. -- We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. |1 John 3:16; Eph 3:19; John 15:13; 2 Cor 8:9; 1 John 4:11; Eph 4:32; Col 3:13; Mark 10:4,5; 1 Pet 2:21; John 13:14,15; 1 John 3:16|<strong>What things soever the Father doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.</strong>+ +The LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. -- I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.+ +Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.+ +Them that are sanctified by God the Father. -- He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.+ +Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. -- The fulness of him that filleth all in all.+ +I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. -- This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.+ +Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. |John 5:19; Prov 2:6; Luke 21:15; Psa 27:14; 2 Cor 12:9; Jude 1; Heb 2:11; Jer 23:24; Eph 1:23; Isa 43:11; John 4:42; Tit 1:4
September 30th|september-30|<strong>He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</strong>+ +He knoweth our frame. -- He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.+ +The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.+ +He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. -- I ... will refine them as silver is refined, ... they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, the LORD is my God. |Job 23:10; Psa 103:14; Lam 3:33; 2 Tim 2:19-21; Mal 3:3; Zech 13:9|<strong>Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.</strong>+ +Moses said unto the LORD, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. -- He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.+ +The meek will he guide in judgment; and the meek will he teach his way. What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. -- Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.+ +Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. -- I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. -- The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. |Psa 25:4; Exo 33:12-14; Psa 103:7; Psa 25:9,12; Prov 3:5,6; Psa 16:11; Psa 32:8; Prov 4:18
October 1st|october-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is temperance.</strong>+ +Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.+ +Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be filled with the Spirit.+ +If any man will come after me let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.+ +Let us not sleep, as do others: but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober. -- Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world: looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. |Gal 5:22; 1 Cor 9:25-27; Eph 5:18; Matt 16:24; 1 Thes 5:6-8; Tit 2:12,13|<strong>Grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.</strong>+ +First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. -- Till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.+ +They measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.+ +The body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head from which all the body by joints and bands, having nourishment ministered and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.+ +Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. |Eph 4:15; Matt 4:28; Eph 4:13; 2 Cor 10:12,17,18; Col 2:17-19; 2 Pet 3:18
October 2nd|october-02|<strong>The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.</strong>+ +As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. -- In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. -- Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. -- Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity?+ +All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. -- He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. -- The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. |Lev 16:22; Psa 103:12; Jer 50:20; Mic 7:19; Mic 7:18; Isa 53:6; Isa 53:11,12; John 1:29|<strong>Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?</strong>+ +By the grace of God I am what I am. -- Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth. -- It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. -- Where is boasting then? It is excluded. -- Christ Jesus, ... is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: ... He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord.+ +You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. -- Ye are washed, ... ye are sanctified, ... ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. |1 Cor 4:7; 1 Cor 15:10; Jas 1:18; Rom 9:16; Rom 3:27; 1 Cor 1:30,31; Eph 2:1-3; 1 Cor 6:11
October 3rd|october-03|<strong>Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.</strong>+ +Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.+ +Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. -- In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.+ +Ye are washed, ... ye are sanctified, ... ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. -- Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. -- I beseech you ... brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. |Rev 1:5; Song 8:7,6; John 15:13; 1 Pet 2:24; Eph 1:7; 1 Cor 6:11; 1 Pet 2:9; Rom 12:1|<strong>There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.</strong>+ +Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses ... Jehonathan: and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri: and over the vineyards was Shimei. These were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.+ +God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. All these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.+ +As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. |1 Cor 12:5; 1 Chr 27:25-27,31; 1 Cor 12:28,11; 1 Pet 4:10,11