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Matthew week 76   Exodus 20:9-10a ESV   9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work...       Matthew 12:2 ESV   2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."       Matthew 12:6-8 ESV   6 I tell you, something greater than the...

We are Jonah Updated:  Dec 28, 2024   Jonah 1:1-3 NIV   1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshis...

LOVE Updated:  1 day ago   Mark 12:26-27 ESV   26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? 27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong."       Mark 12:28-31 ESV   28 And one of the scribes came up and heard the...

Joy   Luke 10:17 ESV   17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"       Luke 10:20 ESV   20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."         Ephesians 2:8 ESV   8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gi...

Peace   Luke 2:1-7 ESV   In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house...

Hope Updated:  Nov 30         John 8:12 ESV   12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."       Genesis 3:15 ESV   I will put enmity between you and the woman,   and between your offspring and her offspring;   he shall bruise your head,   and you shall bruise his heel."       Genesis 12:7 ESV  ...

The Ezer Kenegdo   Genesis 2:18 NASB   18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."       Genesis 1:26 NASB   26 Then God said, "Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness;   Merriam Webster : one that helps; especially : a relatively unskilled worker who assists a skilled worker usually by manual labor. Ex. The ca...

Matthew week 75 Updated:  1 day ago   Matthew 12:3a ESV   3 He said to them, "Have you not read       Matthew 12:3-4 ESV   3 He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?        ...

Matthew week 74   Matthew 11:28 ESV   28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.   Matthew 11:29-30 ESV   29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."       Matthew 12:1-2 ESV   At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. H...

Matthew week 73 Updated:  1 day ago   Ephesians 1:11-14 ESV   11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and beli...

Matthew week 71   2 Corinthians 7:8-10 ESV   8 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10 For godly grief produces a re...

Matthew week 68   Matthew 14:3-5 ESV   3 For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, 4 because John had been saying to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." 5 And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.       Matthew 11:2-3 ESV   2 Now when John heard in prison a...

  Matthew week 67 Updated:  1 day ago   Romans 12:1 ESV   I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.       Galatians 2:20 ESV   20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith i...

Matthew week 66 Updated:  24 hours ago   Matthew 10:34-36 ESV   34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.       Isaiah 9:6b ESV   and hi...

Matthew 10:24-33   English Standard Version     24  "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant [ a ]  above his master.   25  It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign [ b ]  those of his household. Have No Fear 26  "So have no fear of them, for nothing is cov...

Matthew week 64   Matthew 10:21-22 ESV   21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.       Philippians 2:12-13 ESV   12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presen...

Matthew week 63 Updated:  4 hours ago   Matthew 10:16-18 ESV   16 "Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, 18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.       Matthew 10:5...

Matthew week 62 Updated:  6 hours ago   Matthew 10:1 ESV   And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.       James 4:7 ESV   7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.       Matthew 10:2-4 ESV   2 The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Si...

Matthew week 61   Matthew 9:25-26 ESV       25 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 26 And the report of this went through all that district.       Mark 5:41-43 ESV       41 Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Talitha cumi," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." 42 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she...

Matthew week 60   Matthew 9:21-22 ESV   21 for she said to herself, "If I only touch his garment, I will be made well." 22 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well.         Mark 5:27-34 ESV   27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said,...

Matthew week 59   Matthew 9:18 ESV   18 While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."       Luke 8:41 ESV   41 And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue. And falling at Jesus' feet, he implored him to come to his house,       Acts 10:25-26 E...

Matthew week 58 Updated:  1 day ago   Matthew 9:14 ESV   14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"       John 3:28-30 ESV   28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.' 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and he...