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Acts
2:42-47
Psalm
23
1
Peter 2:19-25
John
10:1-10
Acts
2:42-47
2:42 They devoted
themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the
breaking of bread and the prayers.
2:43
Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being
done by the apostles.
2:44
All who believed were together and had all things in common;
2:45
they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the
proceeds to all, as any had need.
2:46
Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they
broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous
hearts,
2:47
praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by
day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
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Psalm
23
23:1 The LORD is my
shepherd, I shall not want.
23:2
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still
waters;
23:3
he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name's
sake.
23:4
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for
you are with me; your rod and your staff-- they comfort me.
24:5
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you
anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
24:6
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD my whole life long.
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1
Peter 2:19-25
2:19 For it is a credit
to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering
unjustly.
2:20
If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is
that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you
have God's approval.
2:21
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for
you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his
steps.
2:22
"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his
mouth."
2:23
When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he
did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges
justly.
2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free
from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have
been healed.
2:25
For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to
the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
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John
10:1-10
10:1 Very truly, I tell
you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but
climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.
10:2
The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his
voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
10:4
When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and
the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
10:5
They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him
because they do not know the voice of strangers."
10:6
Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not
understand what he was saying to them.
10:7
So again Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, I am
the gate for the sheep.
10:8
All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did
not listen to them.
10:9
I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come
in and go out and find pasture.
10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that
they may have life, and have it abundantly."
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