Corrects spelling errors and verse reference

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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ January 31st|january-31|<strong>If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the
 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
 February 2nd|february-02|<strong>Oh that thou wouldest keep me from evil.</strong>+ +Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. -- The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.+ +Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.+ +The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. -- I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. -- He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.+ +Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. -- The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.  |1 Chr 4:10; Luke 22:46; Matt 26:41; Prov 30:7-9; Psa 121:7; Jer 15:21; 1 John 5:18; Rev 3:10; 2 Pet 2:9|<strong>One star differeth from another star in glory.</strong>+ +By the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all. -- Be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.+ +Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.+ +They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righeousness as the stars for ever and ever.  |1 Cor 15:41; Mark 9:34,35; 1 Pet 5:5,6; Phl 2:5-7,9,10; Dan 12:3
 February 3rd|february-03|<strong>Be strong, and work; for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. -- Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. -- The joy of the Lord is your strength.+ +Thus said the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets. -- Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. -- The Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might.+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.+ +Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  |Hag 2:4; John 15:5; Phl 4:13; Eph 6:10; Neh 8:10; Zech 8:9; Isa 35:3,4; Judg 6:14; Rom 8:31 ; 2 Cor 4:1; Gal 6:9; 1 Cor 15:57|<strong>The darkness hideth not from thee.</strong>+ +His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. -- Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? ... Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.+ +Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; ... nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ... Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. -- He that keepeth thee will not slumber. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.  |Psa 139:12; Job 34:21,2; Jer 23:24; Psa 91:5,6,9,10; Psa 121:3,5; Psa 23:4
-February 4th|february-04|<strong>The Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.</strong>+ +Truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is a heavenly. 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. -- The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. -- No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.+ +God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. -- Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.+ +He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.  |Deut 17:16; Heb 11:15,16,25,26; Heb 10:38,39; Luke 9:62; Gal 6:14; 2 Cor 6:17; Phl 1:6|<strong>They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.</strong>+ +I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.+ +He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. -- Comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.+ +Let us not ... judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. -- We ... that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourelves.+ +Charity ... rejoiceth not in iniquity. -- Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.  |Psa 69:26; Zech 1:15; Gal 6:1; Jas 5:20; 1 Thes 5:14; Rom 14:30; Rom 15:1; 1 Cor 13:4,6; 1 Cor 10:12
+February 4th|february-04|<strong>The Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.</strong>+ +Truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is a heavenly. 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. -- The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. -- No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.+ +God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. -- Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.+ +He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.  |Deut 17:16; Heb 11:15,16,25,26; Heb 10:38,39; Luke 9:62; Gal 6:14; 2 Cor 6:17; Phl 1:6|<strong>They talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.</strong>+ +I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.+ +He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. -- Comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.+ +Let us not ... judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. -- We ... that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.+ +Charity ... rejoiceth not in iniquity. -- Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.  |Psa 69:26; Zech 1:15; Gal 6:1; Jas 5:20; 1 Thes 5:14; Rom 14:30; Rom 15:1; 1 Cor 13:4,6; 1 Cor 10:12
 February 5th|february-05|<strong>I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.</strong>+ +In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. -- She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.+ +The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- If by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. -- Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. -- Our Saviour Jesus Christ, ... hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.+ +God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. -- For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  |John 10:10; Gen 2:17; Gen 3:6; Rom 6:23; Rom 5:17; 1 Cor 15:21-22; 2 Tim 1:10; 1 John 5:11-12; John 3:17|<strong>The judgment seat.</strong>+ +We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth. -- When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.+ +Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. -- Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? 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. -- There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.+ +We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.  |2 Cor 5:10; Rom 2:2; Matt 25:31-32; Matt 13:43; Rom 8:33-34; Rom 8:1; 1 Cor 11:32
 February 6th|february-06|<strong>The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +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 become rich. -- For where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.+ +That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. -- Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. -- According to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.  |1 Tim 1:14; 2 Cor 8:9; Rom 5:20; Eph 2:7-9; Gal 2:16; Tit 3:5,6|<strong>I am ... the bright and morning Star. There shall come a star out of Jacob.</strong>+ +The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. -- Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bethel.+ +Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.+ +I am the light of the world. -- I will give him the morning star.+ +Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: ... lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.  |Rev 22:16; Num 24:17; Rom 13:12; Song 2:17; Isa 25:11,12; John 8:12; Rev 2:28; Mark 13:33,37
 February 7th|february-07|<strong>When thou has eaten and are full, ... thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.</strong>+ +Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God. -- One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.+ +Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. -- He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. -- The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.+ +Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, ... who forgiveth all thine iniquities; ... who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.  |Deut 8:10; Deut 8:11; Luke 17:15; 1 Tim 4:4,5; Rom 14:6; Prov 10:22; Psa 103:1|<strong>Jesus ... was moved with compassion toward them.</strong>+ +Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. -- We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. -- Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way. -- He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.+ +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.+ +Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.  |Matt 14:14; Heb 13:8; Heb 4:15; Heb 5:2; Mark 14:37,38; Psa 103:13,14; Psa 86:15,16
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 February 25th|february-25|<strong>Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</strong>+ +When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. -- Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.+ +Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may he able to stand against the wiles of the devil. -- And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. -- Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. -- Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour; whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. -- This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.+ +Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.  |Jas 4:7; Isa 59:19; Matt 4:10,11; Eph 6:10,11; Eph 5:11; 2 Cor 2:11; 1 Pet 5:8,9; 1 John 5:4; Rom 8:33|<strong>Oh that I knew where I might find him!</strong>+ +Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.+ +Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. -- Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.+ +Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. -- Now in Christ Jesus ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.+ +If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.+ +Look, I am with you alway. -- I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. -- The Comforter ... dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  |Job 23:3; Isa 50:10; Jer 29:13; Luke 11:9,10; 1 John 1:3; Eph 2:13,18; 1 John 1:6; Matt 28:20; Heb 13:5; John 14:16,17
 February 26th|february-26|<strong>Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.</strong>+ +Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. -- Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. -- I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments. -- Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.+ +If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. -- We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins. -- Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is say, his flesh: and having a high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.  |Lam 3:40; Psa 26:2; Psa 51:6; Psa 119:59,60; 1 Cor 11:28; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1; Heb 10:19‑22|<strong>There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.</strong>+ +This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud,... and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. -- An everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. -- That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.+ +We declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.  |Rev 4:3; Gen 9:12,13,16; 2 Sam 23:5; Heb 6:18; Acts 13:32; Heb 13:8
 February 27th|february-27|<strong>Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.</strong>+ +He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. -- I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.+ +Because I live, ye shall live also. -- I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.+ +If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God ... For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.  |Rom 6:11; John 5:24; Gal 2:19,20; John 14:19; John 10:28‑30; Gal 3:1,3|<strong>God ... giveth ... liberally, and upbraideth not.</strong>+ +Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.+ +The grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many ... The free gift is of many offences unto justification.+ +God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.+ +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?  |Jas 1:5; John 8:10,11; Rom 5:15,16; Eph 2:4‑7; Rom 8:32
-February 28th|february-28|<strong>God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</strong>+ +God ... hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God him. -- God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  |John 3:16; 2 Cor 5:18‑21; 1 John 4:8‑11|<strong>The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.</strong>+ +He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone a her ... And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?+ +To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. -- If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.+ +All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.+ +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.  |Prov 20:27; John 8:7,9; Gen 3:11; Jas 4:17; 1 John 3:20,21; Rom 14:20,22; Psa 139:23,24
+February 28th|february-28|<strong>God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</strong>+ +God ... hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. -- God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  |John 3:16; 2 Cor 5:18‑21; 1 John 4:8‑11|<strong>The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.</strong>+ +He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone a her ... And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?+ +To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. -- If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.+ +All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.+ +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.  |Prov 20:27; John 8:7,9; Gen 3:11; Jas 4:17; 1 John 3:20,21; Rom 14:20,22; Psa 139:23,24
 February 29th|february-29|<strong>Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</strong>+ +Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. -- Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.+ +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.+ +Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry ... Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.+ +What is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. -- The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  |Prov 27:1; 2 Cor 6:2; John 12:35,36; Eccl 9:10; Luke 12:19‑21; Jas 4:14; 1 John 2:17|<strong>Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. </strong>+ +Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. -- The same yesterday, and today, and forever.+ +Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. -- The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.+ +God is not a man, that he should lie: neither the son of man, that he should repent. -- It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.+ +This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 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. -- Fear not; I am the first and the last.  |Psa 102:27; Psa 90:2; Mal 3:6; Heb 13:8; Jas 1:17; Rom 11:29; Num 23:19; Lam 3:22; Heb 7:24,25; Rev 1:17
 March 1st|march-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is love.</strong>+ +God is love: and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. -- The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. -- Unto you ... which believe he is precious. -- We love him, because he first loved us. -- 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.+ +Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. -- This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. -- Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. -- Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.  |Gal 5:22; 1 John 4:16; Rom 5:5; 1 Pet 2:7; 1 John 4:19; 2 Cor 5:14,15; 1 Thes 4:9; John 15:12; 1 Pet 4:8; Eph 5:2|<strong>Jehovah‑nissi: The Lord my banner.</strong>+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.+ +Behold, God himself is with us for our captain. -- The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.+ +These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. -- Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.  |Exo 17:15; Rom 8:31; Psa 118:6; Psa 60:4; Psa 27:1,3; 2 Chr 13:12; Psa 46:7; Rev 17:14; Psa 2:1,4; Isa 8:10
 March 2nd|march-02|<strong>God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.</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. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.+ +Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. -- The Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.+ +Let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.  |Gen 41:52; 2 Cor 1:3‑5; 1 Pet 1:6,7; 2 Tim 4:17; 1 Pet 4:19|<strong>There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.</strong>+ +There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; they ... rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.+ +Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ... Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened. -- Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope ... But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.  |Heb 4:9; Job 3:17,18; Rev 14:13; John 11:11,13; 2 Cor 5:4; Rom 8:23‑25
@@ -65,18 +65,18 @@ March 4th|march-04|<strong>Set your affection on things above, not on things on
 March 5th|march-05|<strong>O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.</strong>+ +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. -- Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. -- Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storms.+ +Christ ... suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.  |Psa 38:14; Psa 123:1,2; Psa 61:1‑4; Isa 25:4; 1 Pet 2:21‑23|<strong>Fight the good fight of faith.</strong>+ +We were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. -- Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. -- Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.+ +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. -- God is my strength and power: ... he teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. -- Our sufficiency is of God.+ +The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. -- Behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.+ +The time would fail me to tell of [those] who through faith subdued kingdoms, ... out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.  |1 Tim 6:12; 2 Cor 7:5; 2 Kgs 6:16; Eph 6:10; 1 Sam 17:45; 2 Sam 22:33,35; 2 Cor 3:5; Psa 34:7; 2 Kgs 6:17; Heb 11:32‑34
 March 6th|march-06|<strong>He preserveth the way of his saints.</strong>+ +The Lord your God ... went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. -- As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him. -- The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. -- Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. -- For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish. -- We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. -- With us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles.+ +The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy.  |Prov 2:8; Deut 1:32,33; Deut 32:11,12; Psa 37:23,24; Psa 34:19; Psa 1:6; Rom 8:28; 2 Chr 32:8; Zeph 3:17|<strong>My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</strong>+ +He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; ... the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all ... For the transgression of my people was he stricken ... It pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.+ +Jesus our Lord ... was delivered for our offences. -- Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. -- 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.+ +He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.  |Matt 27:46; Isa 53:5,6,8,10; Rom 4:24,25; 1 Pet 3:18; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13
 March 7th|march-07|<strong>Thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name.</strong>+ +This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.+ +Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken ... but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, ... for the Lord delighteth in thee. And as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. -- He hath sent me ... to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.+ +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, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.+ +I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness and in mercies.+ +Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  |Isa 54:5; Eph 5:32; Isa 62:4,5; Isa 61:1‑3; Isa 61:10; Hos 2:19; Rom 8:35|<strong>My times are in thy hand.</strong>+ +All his saints are in thy hand. -- The word of the Lord came unto Elijah, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. And the word of the Lord can unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.+ +Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.+ +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. -- Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.  |Psa 31:15; Deut 33:3; 1 Kgs 17:2‑4,8,9; Matt 6:25,32; Prov 3:5,6; 1 Pet 5:7
-March 8th|march-08|<strong>Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.</strong>+ +Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.+ +For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. -- I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.+ +Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. -- The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  |Isa 38:17; Mic 7:18,19; Isa 54:7,8; Jer 31:34; Psa 32:1,2; 1 John 1:7|<strong>I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able.</strong>+ +Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Able to succour them that are tempted.+ +Able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for the. Able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.+ +Able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Who 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. Believe ye that I am able to do this? ... Yea, Lord. According to your faith be it unto you.  |2 Tim 1:12; Eph 3:20; 2 Cor 9:8; Heb 2:18; Heb 7:25; Jude 24; 2 Tim 1:12; Phl 3:21; Matt 9:28,29
+March 8th|march-08|<strong>Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.</strong>+ +Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.+ +For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. -- I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.+ +Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. -- The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  |Isa 38:17; Mic 7:18,19; Isa 54:7,8; Jer 31:34; Psa 32:1,2; 1 John 1:7|<strong>I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able.</strong>+ +Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Able to succour them that are tempted.+ +Able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.+ +Able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Who 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. Believe ye that I am able to do this? ... Yea, Lord. According to your faith be it unto you.  |2 Tim 1:12; Eph 3:20; 2 Cor 9:8; Heb 2:18; Heb 7:25; Jude 24; 2 Tim 1:12; Phl 3:21; Matt 9:28,29
 March 9th|march-09|<strong>The living God giveth us richly all things to enjoy.</strong>+ +Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ... then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God: ... for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth.+ +Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. -- They got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them -- There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.  |1 Tim 6:17; Deut 8:11,12,14,18; Psa 127:1,2; Psa 44:3; Psa 4:6|<strong>They sang as it were a new song.</strong>+ +A new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us. -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour. -- By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.+ +Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. -- Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. -- Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. -- I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, ... cried ... saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.  |Rev 14:3; Heb 10:20; Tit 3:5,6; Eph 2:8,9; Psa 115:1; Rev 1:5; Rev 5:9; Rev 7:9,10
 March 10th|march-10|<strong>The Lord will provide.</strong>+ +God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. -- There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.+ +Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. -- Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to deliver their soul from death.+ +My God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -- He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusteth in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth: and with my song will I praise him.  |Gen 22:14; Gen 22:8; Isa 59:1; Rom 11:26; Psa 146:5; Psa 33:18,19; Phl 4:19; Heb 13:5,6; Psa 28:7|<strong>The Lord will provide.</strong>+ +God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.+ +Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. -- There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.+ +Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. -- Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to deliver their soul from death.+ +My God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -- He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusteth in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth: and with my song will I praise him.  |Gen 22:14 (marg) Gen 22:8; Isa 59:1; Rom 11:26; Psa 146:5; Psa 33:18,19; Phl 4:19; Heb 13:5,6; Psa 28:7
 March 11th|march-11|<strong>The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.</strong>+ +The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. -- Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.+ +He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. -- I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.+ +Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept.+ +The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.  |Num 6:24; Prov 10:22; Psa 5:12; Psa 121:3,5,7,8; Isa 27:3; John 17:11,12; 2 Tim 4:18|<strong>Jesus wept.</strong>+ +A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. -- We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. -- It became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. -- Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.+ +I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.+ +Behold how he loved. -- He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. In all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.  |John 11:35; Isa 53:3; Heb 4:15; Heb 2:10; Heb 5:8; Isa 50:5,6; John 11:36; Heb 2:16,17
 March 12th|march-12|<strong>The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.</strong>+ +No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. -- The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. -- The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.+ +Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies sake. Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee. -- Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. -- Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.+ +The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.+ +Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.  |Num 6:25,26; John 1:18; Heb 1:3; 2 Cor 4:4; Psa 31:16,17; Psa 30:7; Psa 89:15; Psa 29:11; Matt 14:27|<strong>Things that are pleasing in his sight.</strong>+ +Without faith it is impossible to please him. -- So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. -- The Lord taketh pleasure in his people.+ +This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. If, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. -- The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, ... is in the sight of God of great price.+ +Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. -- I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.+ +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.  |1 John 3:22; Heb 11:6; Rom 8:8; Psa 149:4; 1 Pet 2:19,20; 1 Pet 3:4; Psa 50:23; Psa 69:30,31; Rom 12:1
 March 13th|march-13|<strong>There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +For as much ... as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.+ +We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. -- In Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace. -- By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. -- 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.  |1 Tim 2:5; Heb 2:14; Isa 45:22; 1 John 2:1; Eph 2:13,14; Heb 9:12,15; Heb 7:25|<strong>O my God, my soul is cast down within me.</strong>+ +Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.+ +Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. -- He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. -- Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.+ +Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. -- Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? -- Be not faithless, but believing. -- Lo, I am with you alway.  |Psa 42:6; Isa 26:3,4; Psa 55:22; Psa 22:24; Jas 5:13; John 14:27; Matt 6:25,26; John 20:27; Matt 28:20
 March 14th|march-14|<strong>Adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.</strong>+ +Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. -- Abstain from all appearance of evil. -- If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. -- Be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.+ +Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart; so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. -- Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.  |Tit 2:10; Phl 1:27; 1 Thes 5:22; 1 Pet 4:14,15; Phl 2:15; Matt 5:16; Prov 3:3,4; Phl 4:8|<strong>The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.</strong>+ +Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth. -- The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.+ +Christ ... loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.+ +Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. Thy word hath quickened me. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. I will not forget thy word. I trust in thy word. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.  |John 6:63; Jas 1:18; 2 Cor 3:6; Eph 5:25‑27; Psa 119:9,50,11,16,42,72,93,103,104
-March 15th|march-15|<strong>Perfect through sufferings.</strong>+ +My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry here, and watch with me. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. -- And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.+ +The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. -- Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. -- I looked on my right hand, and behold, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.+ +He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and a acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  |Heb 2:10; Matt 26:38,39; Luke 22:44; Psa 116:3; Psa 69:20; Psa 142:4; Isa 53:3|<strong>The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.</strong>+ +The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. -- By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. -- Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.+ +Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.+ +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?  |Exo 20:11; Psa 19:1; Psa 33:6,9; Isa 40:15; Heb 11:3; Psa 8:3,4
+March 15th|march-15|<strong>Perfect through sufferings.</strong>+ +My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry here, and watch with me. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. -- And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.+ +The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. -- Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. -- I looked on my right hand, and behold, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.+ +He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  |Heb 2:10; Matt 26:38,39; Luke 22:44; Psa 116:3; Psa 69:20; Psa 142:4; Isa 53:3|<strong>The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.</strong>+ +The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. -- By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. -- Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.+ +Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.+ +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?  |Exo 20:11; Psa 19:1; Psa 33:6,9; Isa 40:15; Heb 11:3; Psa 8:3,4
 March 16th|march-16|<strong>What is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.</strong>+ +My days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. -- Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep ... in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up: in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. -- Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.+ +The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. -- They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. -- Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever.  |Jas 4:14; Job 9:25,26; Psa 90:5,6; Job 14:2; 1 John 2:17; Psa 102:26,27; Heb 13:8|<strong>I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.</strong>+ +Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. -- Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.+ +My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God.+ +I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.  |1 Cor 14:15; Eph 5:18,19; Col 3:16; Psa 145:21; Psa 147:1,7; Rev 14:2
 March 17th|march-17|<strong>He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.</strong>+ +Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. -- Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.+ +He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. As lively stones, ... built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. -- I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.+ +Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.  |Lev 1:4; 1 Pet 1:18,19; 1 Pet 2:24; Eph 1:6; 1 Pet 2:5; Rom 12:1; Jude 24,25|<strong>In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.</strong>+ +When the woman saw that the tree was good for food (the lust of the flesh), and that it was pleasant to the eyes (the lust of the eyes), and a tree to be desired to make one wise (the pride of life), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.+ +When the tempter came to [Jesus], he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread (the lust of the flesh). But he answered, ... Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. The devil ... sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them (the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life). Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan.+ +In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.+ +Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.  |Heb 4:15; Gen 3:6; 1 John 2:16; Matt 4:3,4,8‑10; 1 John 2:16; Heb 2:18; Jas 1:12
 March 18th|march-18|<strong>Mine eyes fail with looking upward.</strong>+ +Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. -- My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. -- My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.+ +Ye have need of patience.+ +While they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. -- Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- That blessed hope,... the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.  |Isa 38:14; Psa 6:2‑4; Psa 55:4‑6; Heb 10:36; Acts 1:10,11‑phl 3:20; Tit 2:13|<strong>His name shall be in their foreheads.</strong>+ +I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep. -- 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.+ +The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. -- Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.+ +After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. -- Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.+ +I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. -- This is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness.  |Rev 22:4; John 10:14; 2 Tim 2:19; Nah 1:7, ‑rev 7:3; Eph 1:13,14; 2 Cor 1:21,22; Rev 3:12; Jer 33:16
-March 19th|march-19|<strong>God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in the turning away every one of you from his iniquities.</strong>+ +Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercies hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. -- Saved by his life.+ +Our Saviour Jesus Christ ... who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. -- As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy for I am holy.+ +The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ... hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. -- In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him. -- Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.+ +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?  |Acts 3:26; 1 Pet 1:3; Rom 5:10; Tit 2:13,14; 1 Pet 1:15,16; Eph 1:3; Col 2:9,10; John 1:16; Rom 8:32|<strong>Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.</strong>+ +Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou has caused me to hope. -- O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.+ +Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. -- Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.+ +Fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strertethened me. -- Be strong, ... and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. -- Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.+ +Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.  |Psa 119:28; Psa 119:49; Isa 38:14; Luke 21:33; Josh 23:14; Dan 10:1; Hag 2:4; Zech 4:6; Eph 6:10
+March 19th|march-19|<strong>God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in the turning away every one of you from his iniquities.</strong>+ +Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercies hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. -- Saved by his life.+ +Our Saviour Jesus Christ ... who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. -- As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy for I am holy.+ +The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ... hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. -- In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him. -- Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.+ +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?  |Acts 3:26; 1 Pet 1:3; Rom 5:10; Tit 2:13,14; 1 Pet 1:15,16; Eph 1:3; Col 2:9,10; John 1:16; Rom 8:32|<strong>Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.</strong>+ +Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou has caused me to hope. -- O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.+ +Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. -- Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.+ +Fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. -- Be strong, ... and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. -- Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.+ +Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.  |Psa 119:28; Psa 119:49; Isa 38:14; Luke 21:33; Josh 23:14; Dan 10:19; Hag 2:4; Zech 4:6; Eph 6:10
 March 20th|march-20|<strong>The entrance of thy words giveth light.</strong>+ +This ... is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. -- God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. -- The Word was God. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. -- If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.+ +Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. -- Ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.+ +Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. -- 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.  |Psa 119:130; 1 John 1:5; 2 Cor 4:6; John 1:1,4; 1 John 1:7; Psa 119:11; John 15:3; Eph 5:8; 1 Pet 2:9|<strong>Noah was a just man.</strong>+ +The just shall live by faith. -- Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour. -- The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.+ +Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.+ +By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference.+ +We ... joy in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth. -- Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified.  |Gen 6:9; Gal 3:11; Gen 8:20,21; Rev 13:8; Rom 5:1; Rom 3:20-22; Rom 5:11; Rom 8:33; Rom 8:30
 March 21st|march-21|<strong>Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.</strong>+ +The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. -- Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. -- Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life. -- The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.+ +What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand.  |Rev 3:2; 1 Pet 4:7; 1 Pet 5:8; Deut 4:9; Heb 10:38,39; Mark 13:37; Isa 41:10,13|<strong>Is his mercy clean gone for ever?</strong>+ +His mercy endureth for ever. -- The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy. -- Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity? ... he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sin into the depths of the sea. -- Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.+ +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.+ +A merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.  |Psa 77:8; Psa 136:23; Num 14:18; Mic 7:18,19; Tit 3:5; 2 Cor 1:3,4; Heb 2:17,15
 March 22nd|march-22|<strong>Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan.</strong>+ +Just Lot ... that righteous man. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. -- Remember Lot's wife.+ +Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. -- Be not ye ... partakers with them. For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.  |Gen 13:10,11; 2 Pet 2:7,8; Gal 6:7; Luke 17:32; 2 Cor 6:14,17; Eph 5:7,8,10,11|<strong>If so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.</strong>+ +He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.+ +The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.+ +Stand ... having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. -- The Lord is with thee, ... Go in this thy might.  |Josh 14:12; Heb 13:5,6; Psa 71:16; Isa 32:17; Eph 6:14,12,13; Judg 6:12,14
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ March 27th|march-27|<strong>To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure rew
 March 28th|march-28|<strong>Be strong and of a good courage.</strong>+ +The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? -- He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. -- My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.+ +If God be for us, who can be against us? -- The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? -- Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. -- We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.+ +Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.  |Josh 1:18; Psa 27:1; Isa 40:29‑31; Psa 73:26; Rom 8:31; Psa 118:6; Psa 44:5; Rom 8:37; 1 Chr 22:16|<strong>Our friend sleepeth.</strong>+ +I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.+ +If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.+ +It came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones ... and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. -- This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. -- Witnesses chosen before of God, ... who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.  |John 11:11; 1 Thes 4:13,14; 1 Cor 15:16‑18,20; Josh 4:1,3,7; Acts 2:32; Acts 10:41
 March 29th|march-29|<strong>Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.</strong>+ +Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. -- Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? -- Heirs of God, and joint‑heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.+ +The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me. -- God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.+ +He that overeometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. -- There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. -- He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.  |Matt 25:34; Luke 12:32; Jas 2:5; Rom 8:17; John 16:27; Heb 11:16; Rev 21:7; 2 Tim 4:8; Phl 1:6|<strong>Riches are not forever; and doth the crown endure to every generation?</strong>+ +Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. -- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. -- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.+ +They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptble. -- We look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen. -- To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. -- There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing. -- A crown of glory that fadeth not away.  |Prov 27:24; Psa 39:6; Col 3:2; Matt 6:19‑21; 1 Cor 9:25; 2 Cor 4:18; Prov 11:18; 2 Tim 4:8; 1 Pet 5:4
 March 30th|march-30|<strong>Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide.</strong>+ +Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.+ +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? -- The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.+ +Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. -- This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night. -- My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.  |Gen 24:63; Psa 19:14; Psa 8:3,4; Psa 111:2; Psa 1:1,2; Josh 1:8; Psa 63:5,6|<strong>How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord! for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?</strong>+ +Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. -- But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.+ +Thou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins.+ +Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. -- A woman ... cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David! But he answered her not a word.+ +The trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth.  |Psa 13:1; Jas 1:17; Isa 49:14,15; Isa 44:21,22; John 11:5,6; Matt 15:22,23; 1 Pet 1:7
-March 31st|march-31|<strong>My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all ... things shall be added unto you. -- He that spared not his Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things? -- All things are your's: whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: all are your's: and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.+ +The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. -- The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will be withheld from them that walk uprightly. -- The living God, ... giveth us richly all things to enjoy. -- God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.  |Phil 4:19; Matt 6:33; Rom 8:32; 1 Cor 3:21‑23; 2 Cor 6:10; Psa 23:1; Psa 84:11; 1 Tim 6:17; 2 Cor 9:8|<strong>What communion hath light with darkness?</strong>+ +Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. -- Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.+ +Darkness hath blinded his eyes. -- Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.+ +The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. -- Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.+ +The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness+ +Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.  |2 Cor 6:14; John 3:19; 1 Thes 5:5; 1 John 2:11; Psa 119:105; Psa 74:20; 1 John 4:7,8; Prov 4:19,18; John 12:46; Eph 5:8
+March 31st|march-31|<strong>My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.</strong>+ +Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all ... things shall be added unto you. -- He that spared not his Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things? -- All things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: all are yours: and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.+ +The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. -- The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will be withheld from them that walk uprightly. -- The living God, ... giveth us richly all things to enjoy. -- God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.  |Phil 4:19; Matt 6:33; Rom 8:32; 1 Cor 3:21‑23; 2 Cor 6:10; Psa 23:1; Psa 84:11; 1 Tim 6:17; 2 Cor 9:8|<strong>What communion hath light with darkness?</strong>+ +Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. -- Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.+ +Darkness hath blinded his eyes. -- Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.+ +The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. -- Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.+ +The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness+ +Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.  |2 Cor 6:14; John 3:19; 1 Thes 5:5; 1 John 2:11; Psa 119:105; Psa 74:20; 1 John 4:7,8; Prov 4:19,18; John 12:46; Eph 5:8
 April 1st|april-01|<strong>The fruit of the Spirit is joy.</strong>+ +Joy in the Holy Ghost. -- Unspeakable and full of glory. Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; ... exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. -- We glory in tribulations.+ +Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; ... for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame. -- These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be fuIl. -- As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.+ +Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. -- The joy of the Lord is your strength. In thy presence is fulness of joy: at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. -- For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.  |Gal 5:22; Rom 14:17; 1 Pet 1:8; 2 Cor 6:10; 7,4; Rom 5:3; Heb 122; John 15:11; 2 Cor 1:5; Phl 4:4; Neh 8:10; Psa 16:11; Rev 7:17|<strong>Jehovah‑shalom: (The Lord send peace.)</strong>+ +Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.+ +Behold, a greater than Solomon is here. -- Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. -- My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; when it shall hail, coming down on the forest ; and the city shall be low in a low place.+ +He is our peace. -- This man shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.  |Judg 6:24; 1 Chr 22:9; Matt 12:42; Isa 9:6; Isa 32:18,19; Eph 2:14; Mic 5:5; Rev 17:14; John 14:27
 April 2nd|april-02|<strong>If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only.</strong>+ +Little children, keep yourselves from idols. -- Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. -- Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.+ +Thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. -- Serve him with a perfect heart with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.+ +Behold, thou desireth truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. -- Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. -- Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.  |1 Sam 7:3; 1 John 5:21; 2 Cor 6:17,18; Matt 6:24; Exo 34:14; 1 Chr 28:9; Psa 51:6; 1 Sam 16:7; 1 John 3:21|<strong>When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?</strong>+ +He came unto his own, and his own received him not. -- The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall from the faith.+ +Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.+ +Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. -- Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. -- Looking for that blessed hope, ... the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ,  |Luke 18:8; John 1:11; 1 Tim 4:1; 2 Tim 4:2-4; Mark 13:32,33; Luke 12:37; Tit 2:13
 April 3rd|april-03|<strong>Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.</strong>+ +My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, ... so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall acomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.+ +God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 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!  |2 Pet 3:8,9; Isa 55:8‑11; Rom 11:32,33|<strong>Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.</strong>+ +The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? -- We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. -- The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.+ +It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. -- Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.+ +Be instant in season, out of season. -- Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.+ +Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. -- Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.  |Amos 4:11; Isa 33:14; 2 Cor 1:9,10; Rom 6:23; Heb 10:31; 2 Cor 5:11; 2 Tim 4:2; Jude 23; Zech 4:6; 1 Tim 2:4
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ July 06th|july-06|<strong>Let your speech be always with grace.</strong>+ +A wor
 July 07th|july-07|<strong>Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.</strong>+ +In the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. -- We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.+ +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. -- My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.  |Matt 4:1; Heb 5:7‑9; Heb 4:15; 1 Cor 10:13; 2 Cor 12:9|<strong>The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many.</strong>+ +If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?+ +He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. -- I lay down my life for the sheep. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.+ +The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. -- Without shedding of blood is no remission.+ +While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  |Matt 20:28; Heb 9:13,14; Isa 53:7; John 10:15,18; Lev 17:11; Heb 9:22; Rom 5:8,9
 July 08th|july-08|<strong>If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</strong>+ +I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight.+ +And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. -- I have blotted out as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. -- Your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. -- God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. -- That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.+ +Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. -- They shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.+ +This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood.  |1 John 1:9; Psa 51:3,4; Luke 15:20; Isa 44:22; 1 John 2:12; Eph 4:32; Rom 3:26; Eze 36:25; Rev 3:4; 1 John 5:6|<strong>Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee?</strong>+ +Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. -- Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and 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. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.+ +The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. -- An high priest ... holy, harmless, undefiled.+ +We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. -- The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.+ +Whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.  |Psa 94:20; 1 John 1:3; 1 John 3:2,3; John 14:30; Heb 7:26; Eph 6:12; Eph 2:2; 1 John 5:18,19
 July 09th|july-09|<strong>I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.</strong>+ +Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. -- We are all as an unclean thing. -- I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.+ +As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. -- Ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. -- Not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but ... the righteousness which is of God by faith.+ +Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. -- The fine linen is the righteousness of saints. -- 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.  |Zech 3:4; Psa 32:1; Isa 64:6; Rom 7:18; Col 3:27; Col 3:9,10; Phl 3:9; Luke 15:22; Rev 19:8; Isa 61:10|<strong>The day shall declare it.</strong>+ +Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.+ +Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more.+ +God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. -- The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.+ +The Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.  |1 Cor 3:13; 1 Cor 4:5; Rom 14:10,12,13; Rom 2:16; John 5:22,27; Jer 32:18,19
-July 10th|july-10|<strong>The disciple is not above his master.</strong>+ +Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also. -- I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.+ +Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.+ +Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. -- Forasmuch ... as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.  |Matt 10:24; John 13:13; Matt 10:25; John 15:20; John 17:14; Heb 12:3,4; Heb 12:1,2; 1 Pet 4:1|<strong>My son, give me thine heart.</strong>+ +O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!+ +Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.+ +They ... first gave their own selves to the Lord. -- In every work that [Hezekiah] began ... to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.+ +Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. -- As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.+ +I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.  |Pro 23:26; Deut 5:29; Acts 8:21; Rom 87,8; 2 Cor 8:5; 2 Chr 31:21; Prov 4:23; Col 3:23; Eph 6:6,7; Psa 119:32
-July 11th|july-11|<strong>I am with thee to save thee.</strong>+ +Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee. And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. -- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my rightousness.+ +We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. -- In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. -- The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.  |Jer 15:20; Isa 49:24‑26; Isa 41:10; Heb 4:15; Heb 2:18; Psa 37:23,24|<strong>He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.</strong>+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious+ +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. -- My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. -- They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. -- My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.  |Psa 107:9; 1 Pet 2:3; Psa 63:1,2; Psa 84:2; Phl 1:23; Psa 17:15; Rev 7:16,17; Psa 36:8; Jer 31:14
+July 10th|july-10|<strong>The disciple is not above his master.</strong>+ +Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.+ +It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. -- If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. -- I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.+ +Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.+ +Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. -- Forasmuch ... as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.  |Matt 10:24; John 13:13; Matt 10:25; John 15:20; John 17:14; Heb 12:3,4; Heb 12:1,2; 1 Pet 4:1|<strong>My son, give me thine heart.</strong>+ +O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!+ +Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. -- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.+ +They ... first gave their own selves to the Lord. -- In every work that [Hezekiah] began ... to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.+ +Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord. -- As the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.+ +I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.  |Pro 23:26; Deut 5:29; Acts 8:21; Rom 87,8; 2 Cor 8:5; 2 Chr 31:21; Prov 4:23; Col 3:23; Eph 6:6,7; Psa 119:32
+July 11th|july-11|<strong>I am with thee to save thee.</strong>+ +Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee. And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. -- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.+ +We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. -- In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. -- The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.  |Jer 15:20; Isa 49:24‑26; Isa 41:10; Heb 4:15; Heb 2:18; Psa 37:23,24|<strong>He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.</strong>+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious+ +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. -- My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. -- Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better.+ +I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. -- They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. -- They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. -- My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.  |Psa 107:9; 1 Pet 2:3; Psa 63:1,2; Psa 84:2; Phl 1:23; Psa 17:15; Rev 7:16,17; Psa 36:8; Jer 31:14
 July 12th|july-12|<strong>My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.</strong>+ +Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. The Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. -- Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. -- In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.+ +He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. -- Our sufficiency is of God.+ +Lead us not into temptation. -- O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. -- My times are in thy hand.  |Exo 33:14; Deut 31:6,8; Josh 1:9; Prov 3:6; Heb 13:5,6; 2 Cor 3:5; Matt 6:13; Jer 10:23; Psa 31:15|<strong>Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.</strong>+ +How forcible are right words! -- I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance.+ +They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. -- If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.+ +The Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. -- Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.+ +Let ... no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. -- Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.  |Heb 10:24; Job 6:25; 2 Pet 3:1; Mal 3:16; Matt 18:19; Gen 2:18; Eccl 4:9,10; Rom 14:13; Gal 6:2,1
 July 13th|july-13|<strong>I am my Beloved's, and His desire is toward me.</strong>+ +I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. -- I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost.+ +The Lord taketh pleasure in his people. -- My delights were with the sons of men. -- His great love wherewith he loved us. -- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.+ +Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in you body, and in your spirit, which are God's. -- Whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.  |Song 7:10; 2 Tim 1:12; Rom 8:38,39; John 17:12; Psa 149:4; Prov 8:31; Eph 2:4; John 15:13; 1 Cor 6:20; Rom 14:8|<strong>Seek ye out of the book of the Lord.</strong>+ +Ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. -- This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.+ +The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. -- By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. -- Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.+ +We have ... a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. -- That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.  |Isa 34:16; Deut 11:18; Josh 1:8; Psa 37:31; Psa 17:4; Psa 119:11; 2 Pet 1:19; Rom 15:4
 July 14th|july-14|<strong>Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.</strong>+ +Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.+ +Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. -- Death and life are in the power of the tongue. --The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slide. -- 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.+ +We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. -- I believed, therefore have I spoken.+ +Whosoever ... shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. -- With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  |Matt 12:34; Col 3:16; Prov 4:23; Prov 18:21; Psa 37:30,31; Eph 4:29; Acts 4:20; Psa 116:10; Mark 10:32; Rom 10:10|<strong>I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face.</strong>+ +Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down! -- As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? -- Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.+ +Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. -- God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. -- Whom having not seen, ye love.+ +He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. -- It shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.  |21 John 14; Isa 64:1; Psa 42:1,2; Song 8:14; Phl 3:20; Tit 2:13; 1 Tim 1:1; 1 Pet 1:8; Rev 22:20; Isa 25:9
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 August 23rd|august-23|<strong>I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.</strong>+ +We are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- God ... hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. -- Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.+ +God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.+ +Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  |Jer 31:3; 2 Thes 2:13,14; 2 Tim 1:9; Psa 139:16; John 3:16; 1 John 4:10|<strong>I have made, and I will bear.</strong>+ +Thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. -- Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you.+ +As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him. -- He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.+ +Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. -- For I am persuaded, that neither ... height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.+ +Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.  |Isa 46:4; Isa 43:1,2; Isa 46:4; Deut 32:11,12; Isa 63:9; Heb 13:8; Rom 8:38,39; Isa 49:15
 August 24th|august-24|<strong>I know their sorrows.</strong>+ +A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. -- Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.+ +Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. -- Jesus being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.+ +When Jesus ... saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled. Jesus wept. -- For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.+ +He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. -- He knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. -- When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.+ +He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. -- In all their affliction he was afflicted; and the angel of his presence saved them.  |Exo 3:7; Isa 53:3; Heb 4:15; Matt 8:17; John 4:6; John 11:33,35; Heb 2:18; Psa 102:19,20; Job 23:10; Psa 142:3; Zech 2:8; Isa 63:9|<strong>I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day.</strong>+ +The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. -- He that watereth shall be watered.+ +My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest: behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. -- The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.+ +Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season. -- Occupy till I come.+ +I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.  |John 9:4; Prov 13:4; Prov 11:25; John 4:34-36; Matt 20:1,2; 2 Tim 4:2; Luke 19:13; 1 Cor 15:10
 August 25th|august-25|<strong>Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.</strong>+ +Behold, I was shapen in iniquity. -- None eye pitied thee but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, Live.+ +He brought me up ... out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.+ +When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. -- God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.  |Isa 51:1; Psa 51:5; Ezek 16:5,6; Psa 40:2,3; Rom 5:6-8; Eph 2:4,5|<strong>I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God.</strong>+ +I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. -- The LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. -- Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.+ +Is any merry? let him sing psalms. -- Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD; giving thanks always for all things. -- Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.+ +At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. -- Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again, I say, Rejoice.  |Isa 61:10; Psa 34:1-3; Psa 84:11,12; Psa 103:1; Jas 5:13; Eph 5:18-20; Col 3:16; Acts 16:25; Phl 4:4
-August 26th|august-26|<strong>Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.</strong>+ +Holiness, without which no man can see the Lord. -- God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. -- I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.+ +This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. -- Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.+ +For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. -- Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us ... come boldly unto the throne of grace. that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.  |Exo 28:36; Heb 12:14; John 4:24; Isa 64:6; Lev 10:3; Ezek 43:12; Psa 93:5; John 17:19; Heb 4:14,16|<strong>My cup runneth over.</strong>+ +O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. -- His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.+ +The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. -- Whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. -- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.+ +I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. -- Godliness with contentment is great gain. -- My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  |Psa 23:5; Psa 34:8-10; Lam 3:22,23; Psa 16:5,6; 1 Cor 3:22; Eph 1:3; Phl 4:11; 1 Tim 6:6; Phl 4:19
+August 26th|august-26|<strong>Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.</strong>+ +Holiness, without which no man can see the Lord. -- God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -- But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. -- I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.+ +This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. -- Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.+ +For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. -- Seeing ... that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us ... come boldly unto the throne of grace. that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.  |Exo 28:36; Heb 12:14; John 4:24; Isa 64:6; Lev 10:3; Ezek 43:12; Psa 93:5; John 17:19; Heb 4:14,16|<strong>My cup runneth over.</strong>+ +O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. -- His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.+ +The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. -- Whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. -- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.+ +I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. -- Godliness with contentment is great gain. -- My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  |Psa 23:5; Psa 34:8-10; Lam 3:22,23; Psa 16:5,6; 1 Cor 3:22; Eph 1:3; Phl 4:11; 1 Tim 6:6; Phl 4:19
 August 27th|august-27|<strong>Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.</strong>+ +By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. -- When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light. -- Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.+ +I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. -- We have also a sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. -- Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. -- They need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.  |Psa 119:105; Psa 17:4,5; Prov 6:22,23; Isa 30:21; John 8:12; 2 Pet 1:19; 1 Cor 13:12; Rev 22:5|<strong>What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise.</strong>+ +This is not your rest: ... it is polluted, it shall destroy you. -- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. -- If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. -- Set your heart and your soul to seek your God: arise therefore.+ +Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. -- Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.+ +While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. -- Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. -- Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. -- Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping.  |Jon 1:6; Mic 2:10; Col 3:2; Psa 62:10; 1 Chr 22:19; Luke 22:46; Luke 21:34; Matt 25:5; Heb 10:37; Rom 13:11; Mark 13:35,36
 August 28th|august-28|<strong>The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.</strong>+ +They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. -- Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? 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.+ +Having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly. -- 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. -- In all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. -- Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. -- Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  |Rev 12:10; Rev 12:11; Rom 8:33,34; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14,15; Rom 8:37; Eph 6:11,17; 1 Cor 15:57|<strong>The tree of life</strong>.+ +God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. -- He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. -- As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.+ +To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. -- In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.+ +Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. Length of days is in her right hand. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. -- Christ Jesus, ... is made unto us wisdom.  |Gen 2:9; 1 John 5:11; John 3:16; John 5:21,26; Rev 2:7; Rev 22:2; Prov 3:13,16,18; 1 Cor 1:30
 August 29th|august-29|<strong>Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.</strong>+ +[Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. -- The children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.+ +God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. -- It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. -- The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.+ +O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.  |Prov 16:20; Rom 4:20,21; 2 Chr 13:18; Psa 46:1,2; Psa 118:8,9; Psa 37:23,24; Psa 34:8,9|<strong>I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.</strong>+ +Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust. -- Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings. -- He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.+ +I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. -- The darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.+ +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? -- Ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- I will trust, and not be afraid.  |Psa 4:8; Psa 91:5,4; Matt 23:37; Psa 121:3-5; Psa 61:4; Psa 139:12; Rom 8:32; 1 Cor 3:23; Isa 12:2
@@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ September 17th|september-17|<strong>A bruised reed shall he not break.</strong>+
 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
 September 20th|september-20|<strong>Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. </strong>+ +Whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.+ +Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might: ... but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD. -- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.+ +What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. -- In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.+ +Christ Jesus, ... is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.+ +He that winneth souls is wise.  |Prov 3:13; Prov 8:35; Jer 9:23,24; Prov 9:10; Phl 3:7,8; Col 2:3; Prov 8:14; 1 Cor 1:30; Prov 1:30|<strong>Poor, yet making many rich.</strong>+ +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. -- Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. -- My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. -- God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.+ +Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? -- Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.+ +We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.  |2 Cor 6:10; 2 Cor 8:9; John 1:16; Phl 4:19; 2 Cor 9:8; Jas 2:5; 1 Cor 1:26,27; 2 Cor 4:7
-September 21st|september-21|<strong>We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.</strong>+ +Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. -- Ye thought evil against me: but God meant it unto good.+ +All things are your's; whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- All things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but 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.+ +My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.  |Rom 8:28; Psa 76:10; Gen 50:20; 1 Cor 3:21-23; 2 Cor 4:15-17; Jas 1:2-4|<strong>The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.</strong>+ +I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. -- He shall not speak of himself. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.+ +The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.+ +He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. -- Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?+ +Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. -- The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we would pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  |2 Cor 13:14; John 14:16,17; John 16:13,14; Rom 5:5; 1 Cor 6:17; 1 Cor 6:19; Eph 4:30; Rom 8:26
+September 21st|september-21|<strong>We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.</strong>+ +Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. -- Ye thought evil against me: but God meant it unto good.+ +All things are yours; whether ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. -- All things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but 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.+ +My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.  |Rom 8:28; Psa 76:10; Gen 50:20; 1 Cor 3:21-23; 2 Cor 4:15-17; Jas 1:2-4|<strong>The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.</strong>+ +I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. -- He shall not speak of himself. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.+ +The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.+ +He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. -- Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?+ +Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. -- The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we would pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.  |2 Cor 13:14; John 14:16,17; John 16:13,14; Rom 5:5; 1 Cor 6:17; 1 Cor 6:19; Eph 4:30; Rom 8:26
 September 22nd|september-22|<strong>My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.</strong>+ +As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. -- For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?+ +My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. -- One pearl of great price. -- The prince of the kings of the earth.+ +His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. -- The head over all things. -- He is the head of the body, the church.+ +His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers. -- He could not be hid.+ +His lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. -- Never man spake like this man.+ +His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. -- Make thy face to shine upon thy servant. -- LORD, lift thou up the light thy countenance upon us.  |Psa 104:34; Song 2:3; Psa 89:6; Song 5:10; Matt 13:46; Rev 1:5; Song 5:11; Eph 1:22; Col 1:18; Song 5:13; Mark 7:24; Song 5:13; John 7:46; Song 5:15; Psa 31:16; Psa 4:6|<strong>O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.</strong>+ +Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.+ +I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. -- He ... became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. -- In the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.+ +Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? -- Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.  |Matt 26:39; John 12:27; John 6:38; Phl 2:8; Heb 5:7,8; Matt 26:53; Luke 24:46,47
-September 23rd|september-23|<strong>Our God hath not forsaken us.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. -- If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.+ +The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.+ +The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. -- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God.+ +Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.  |Ezra 9:9; 1 Pet 4:12; Heb 12:7,8; Deut 13:3; 1 Sam 12:22; Isa 49:15; Psa 146:5; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>He that overcometh shall inherit all things</strong>.+ +If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. -- Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. -- An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.+ +All things are your's; ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's. -- Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.+ +Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. -- Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  |Rev 21:7; 1 Cor 15:19; Heb 11:16; 1 Pet 1:4; 1 Cor 3:21,22; 1 Cor 2:9,10; 2 John 8; Heb 12:1
+September 23rd|september-23|<strong>Our God hath not forsaken us.</strong>+ +Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. -- If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.+ +The LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.+ +The LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. -- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. -- Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God.+ +Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.  |Ezra 9:9; 1 Pet 4:12; Heb 12:7,8; Deut 13:3; 1 Sam 12:22; Isa 49:15; Psa 146:5; Luke 18:7,8|<strong>He that overcometh shall inherit all things</strong>.+ +If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. -- Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. -- An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.+ +All things are yours; ... the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours. -- Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.+ +Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. -- Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  |Rev 21:7; 1 Cor 15:19; Heb 11:16; 1 Pet 1:4; 1 Cor 3:21,22; 1 Cor 2:9,10; 2 John 8; Heb 12:1
 September 24th|september-24|<strong>It is good for me to draw near to God.</strong>+ +LORD,  I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine  honour dwelleth. -- A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had  rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the  tents of wickedness. -- Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and  causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall  be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.+ +The  LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. -- Therefore will the LORD wait that he may be gracious unto you, and  therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: for the  LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.+ +Having  therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of  Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us: ...  let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having  our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.  |Psa 73:28; Psa 26:8; Psa 84:10; Psa 65:4; Lam 3:25; Isa 30:18; Heb 10:19,20,22|<strong>Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +The  Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the  glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. --  Thou are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy  lips. -- All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which  proceeded out of his mouth.+ +Ye have tasted that the Lord is  gracious. -- He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in  himself. -- We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.+ +O  taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth  in him. -- I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit  was sweet to my taste.+ +He said unto me, My grace is sufficient  for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. -- 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.  |2 Cor 8:9; John 1:14; Psa 45:2; Luke 4:22; 1 Pet 2:3; 1 John 5:10; John 3:11; Psa 34:8; Song 2:3; 2 Cor 12:9; Eph 4:7; 1 Pet 4:10
 September 25th|september-25|<strong>Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</strong>+ +Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. -- We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope.+ +It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. -- Ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. -- Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts. |James 1:4; 1 Pet 1:6,7; Rom 5:3-4; Lam 3:26; Heb 10: 34-36; 2Th 2:16-17|<strong>God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.</strong>+ +Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. -- The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: -- because he is the Son of man. -- The Son of God, -- hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire.+ +They say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?--These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. -- There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.+ +Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. -- Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. |Rom 2:16; 1Cor 4:5; Joh 5:22,27; Rev 2:18; Ps 73:11; Ps 50:21; Lu 12:2; Ps 38:9; Ps 26:2
 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
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 October 28th|october-28|<strong>He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him.</strong>+ +Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire: mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. -- I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.+ +There is no God else beside me: a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. -- There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.+ +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.  |Isa 59:16; Psa 40:6-8; John 10:17,18; Isa 45:21,22; Acts 4:12; 2 Cor 8:9|<strong>The Enemy.</strong>+ +Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. -- Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.+ +Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.+ +Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.  |Luke 10:19; 1 Pet 5:8; Jas 4:7; Eph 6:11-16; Mic 7:8
 October 29th|october-29|<strong>He is altogether lovely.</strong>+ +My meditation of him shall be sweet. -- My beloved is ... the chiefest among ten thousand. -- A chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. -- Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips. -- God ... hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. -- It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.+ +Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.+ +I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, 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.  |Song 5:16; Psa 104:34; Song 5:10; 1 Pet 2:6; Psa 45:2; Phl 2:9; Col 1:19; 1 Pet 1:8; Phl 3:8,9|<strong>David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.</strong>+ +Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. -- I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.+ +In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.+ +I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.  |1 Sam 30:6; John 6:68; 2 Tim 1:12; Psa 18:6,18,19; Psa 34:1-4,8
 October 30th|october-30|<strong>It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.</strong>+ +Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? -- I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.+ +Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. -- Wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. -- Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.+ +Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD.+ +Let us not be weary in well doing: ... in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.  |Lam 3:26; Psa 77:9; Psa 31:22; Luke 18:7,8; Prov 20:22; Psa 37:7; 2 Chr 20:17; Gal 6:9; Jas 5:7|<strong>Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.</strong>+ +Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. -- Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled. -- Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?+ +He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. -- The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. -- Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.  |Song 2:15; Psa 19:12; Heb 12:15; Gal 5:7; Phl 1:6,27; Jas 3:5,6; Col 4:6
-October 31st|october-31|<strong>Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?+ +God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.+ +The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. -- Born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.+ +My Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. -- The battle is not your's, but God's.+ +The LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's.  |Zech 4:6; Isa 40:13; 1 Cor 1:27-29; John 3:8; John 1:13; Hag 2:5; 2 Chr 20:15; 1 Sam 17:47|<strong>Do as thou hast said.</strong>+ +Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.+ +Exceeding great and precious promises.  |2 Sam 7:25; Psa 119:38,42,49,54,72,89,90; Heb 6:17-20; 2 Pet 1:4
+October 31st|october-31|<strong>Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.</strong>+ +Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?+ +God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.+ +The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. -- Born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.+ +My Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. -- The battle is not yours, but God's.+ +The LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's.  |Zech 4:6; Isa 40:13; 1 Cor 1:27-29; John 3:8; John 1:13; Hag 2:5; 2 Chr 20:15; 1 Sam 17:47|<strong>Do as thou hast said.</strong>+ +Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.+ +God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.+ +Exceeding great and precious promises.  |2 Sam 7:25; Psa 119:38,42,49,54,72,89,90; Heb 6:17-20; 2 Pet 1:4
 November 1st|november-01|<strong>Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.</strong>+ +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.+ +A continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. -- In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.+ +Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.+ +The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.+ +Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. -- Pray without ceasing.  |Prov 8:34; Psa 123:2; Exo 29:42; Exo 20:24; Matt 18:20; John 4:23,24; Eph 6:18; 1 Thes 5:17|<strong>His name shall be called Counsellor.</strong>+ +The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD.+ +Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.+ +The LORD of hosts ... is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. -- If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. -- 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.  |Isa 9:6; Luke 11:2,3; Prov 8:1,4-6,14; Isa 28:29; Jas 1:5; Prov 3:5,6
 November 2nd|november-02|<strong>Ever follow that which is good.</strong>+ +For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; ... but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. -- Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.+ +Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.+ +Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.  |1 Thes 5:15; 1 Pet 2:21-23; Heb 12:3; Heb 12:1,2; Phl 4:8|<strong>The mighty God.</strong>+ +Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously ... Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. -- Thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty. -- The man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts.+ +Behold, God, is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. -- Thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ.+ +Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.  |Isa 9:6; Psa 45:2-4,6; Psa 89:19; Zech 13:7; Isa 12:2; 2 Cor 2:14; Jude 24,25
 November 3rd|november-03|<strong>The ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.</strong>+ +Unto you ... which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, ... a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence. -- The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.+ +He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. -- Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD. -- The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. -- If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. -- Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance.+ +He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. -- Ye will not come unto me, that ye might have life. -- My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.  |Hos 14:9; 1 Pet 2:7,8; Prov 10:29; Mark 11:15; Psa 107:43; Matt 6:22; John 7:17; Matt 13:12; John 8:47; John 5:40; John 10:27|<strong>The everlasting Father.</strong>+ +Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.+ +I and my Father are one, the Father is in me, and I in him. -- Had ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. -- Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. -- Behold I and the children which God hath given me. -- He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. -- I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. -- Before Abraham was, I am. -- God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.+ +Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. -- He is before all things, and by him all things consist. -- In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.  |Isa 9:6; Deut 6:4; John 10:30,38; John 8:19; John 14:8,9; Heb 2:13; Isa 53:11; Rev 1:8; John 8:58; Exo 3:14; Heb 1:8; Col 1:17; Col 2:9
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 November 24th|november-24|<strong>My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.</strong>+ +Both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren: saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. -- In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. -- Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.+ +Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. -- My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. -- Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in him.  |Luke 8:21; Heb 2:11,12; Gal 5:6; John 15:14; Luke 11:28; Matt 7:21; John 4:34; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 2:5|<strong>What doest thou here, Elijah?</strong>+ +He knoweth the way that I take. -- 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. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.+ +Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are. -- The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. -- Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. -- A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.+ +Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. -- The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. -- Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.  |1 Kgs 19:9; Job 23:10; Psa 139:1-3,7,9,10; Jas 5:17; Prov 29:25; Psa 37:24; Prov 24:16; Gal 6:9; Matt 26:41; Psa 103:13,14
 November 25th|november-25|<strong>Being made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.</strong>+ +Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. -- When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.+ +Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.+ +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. -- Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.+ +O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. -- I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.  |Rom 6:18; Matt 6:24; Rom 6:20-22; Rom 10:4; John 12:26; Matt 11:29,30; Isa 26:13; Psa 119:32|<strong>Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall he saved.</strong>+ +Manasseh did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, and he reared up altars for Baal. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. -- And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. -- And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication.+ +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. -- The Lord is longsuffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish.  |Acts 2:21; 2 Kgs 21:1,2,3,5,6; 2 Chr 33:12,13; Isa 1:18; 2 Pet 3:9
 November 26th|november-26|<strong>The Lord delighteth in thee.</strong>+ +Thus saith the LORD that created thee, ... Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. -- Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of mine hands: thy walls are continually before me.+ +The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. -- My delights were with the sons of men. -- The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. -- They shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.+ +You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.  |Isa 62:4; Isa 43:1; Isa 49:15,16; Psa 37:23; Prov 8:31; Psa 147:11; Mal 3:17; Col 1:21,22|<strong>The sorrow of the world worketh death.</strong>+ +When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died. -- A wounded spirit who can bear?+ +Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? -- The LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. -- Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.+ +Philip preached unto him Jesus. -- He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.  |2 Cor 7:10; 2 Sam 17:23; Prov 18:14; Jer 8:22; Isa 61:1-3; Matt 11:28-30; Acts 8:35; Psa 147:3
-November 27th|november-27|<strong>The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.</strong>+ +I saw ... the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. -- These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. -- Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness ... of a man above upon it. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.+ +I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. -- No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. -- God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  |John 17:22; Isa 6:1-3; John 12:41; Ezek 1:26,28; Exo 33:18,20; John 1:18; 2 Cor 4:6|<strong>My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.</strong>+ +She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. -- Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.+ +Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.+ +Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.+ +None of us liveth to himself. -- Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. -- Take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.+ +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.  |Prov 1:10; Gen 3:6; Josh 22:20; Exo 23:2; Matt 7:13; Rom 14:7; Gal 5:13; 1 Cor 8:9,12; Isa 53:6
+November 27th|november-27|<strong>The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.</strong>+ +I saw ... the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. -- These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. -- Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness ... of a man above upon it. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.+ +I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. -- No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. -- God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  |John 17:22; Isa 6:1-3; John 12:41; Ezek 1:26,28; Exo 33:18,20; John 1:18; 2 Cor 4:6|<strong>My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.</strong>+ +She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. -- Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.+ +Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.+ +Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.+ +None of us liveth to himself. -- Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. -- Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.+ +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.  |Prov 1:10; Gen 3:6; Josh 22:20; Exo 23:2; Matt 7:13; Rom 14:7; Gal 5:13; 1 Cor 8:9,12; Isa 53:6
 November 28th|november-28|<strong>As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.</strong>+ +Not every one that saith, ... Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. -- Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. -- Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.+ +By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.  |Jas 2:26; Matt 7:21; Heb 12:14; 2 Pet 1:5-10; Eph 2:8,9|<strong>As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that he might deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.</strong>+ +O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. -- For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.+ +We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.+ +Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  |Heb 2:14,15; 1 Cor 15:55,57; 2 Cor 4:16; 2 Cor 5:1,6-8; John 14:1-3
 November 29th|november-29|<strong>We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house.</strong>+ +One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.+ +Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. -- He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.+ +He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. -- I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.+ +How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.  |Psa 65:4; Psa 27:4; Matt 5:6; Luke 1:53; Psa 107:9; John 6:35; Psa 36:7-9|<strong>Do ye now believe?</strong>+ +What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.+ +By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. -- Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.+ +Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.+ +By their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. -- If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.  |John 16:31; Jas 2:14,17; Heb 11:17-19; Jas 2:21,24; Jas 1:25; Matt 7:20,21; John 13:17
 November 30th|november-30|<strong>The Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.</strong>+ +Peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come. -- The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.+ +Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. -- Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.+ +The Comforter ... even the Spirit of truth. -- The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. -- The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.+ +My presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us?  |2 Thes 3:16; Rev 1:4; Phl 4:7; Luke 24:36; John 14:27; John 15:26; Gal 5:22; Rom 8:16; Exo 33:14-16|<strong>We glory in tribulations.</strong>+ +If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.+ +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. -- Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.+ +Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, rejoice. -- They departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.+ +The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.+ +Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.  |Rom 5:3; 1 Cor 15:19; 1 Pet 4:12,13; 2 Cor 6:10; Phl 4:4; Acts 5:41; Rom 15:13; Hab 3:17,18