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Genesis
6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19
Psalm
46
Romans
1:16-17; 3:22b-28
Matthew
7:21-29
Genesis
6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19
6:9 These are the
descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his
generation; Noah walked with God.
6:10
And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled
with violence.
6:12
And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted its ways upon the earth.
6:13
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of
all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them;
now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
6:14
Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and
cover it inside and out with pitch.
6:15
This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three
hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty
cubits.
6:16
Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and put
the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and
third decks.
6:17
For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth,
to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of
life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into
the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
6:19
And of every living thing, of all flesh, you shall bring two of
every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall
be male and female.
6:20
Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals
according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground
according to its kind, two of every kind shall come in to you, to
keep them alive.
6:21
Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it
up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them."
6:22
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
7:24
And the waters swelled on the earth for one hundred fifty days.
8:14
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the
earth was dry.
8:15
Then God said to Noah,
8:16
"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your
sons' wives with you.
8:17
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all
flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth--so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful
and multiply on the earth."
8:18
So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
8:19
And every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything
that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by families.
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Psalm
46
46:1 God is our refuge
and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though
the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
46:3
though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with
its tumult. Selah
46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy
habitation of the Most High.
46:5
God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved; God will
help it when the morning dawns.
46:6
The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter; he utters his
voice, the earth melts.
46:7
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
46:8
Come, behold the works of the LORD; see what desolations he has
brought on the earth.
46:9
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow,
and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.
46:10
"Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the
nations, I am exalted in the earth."
46:11
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
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Romans
1:16-17, 3:22b-28
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power
of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek.
1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for
faith; as it is written, "The one who is righteous will live
by faith."
3:22b
For there is no distinction,
3:23
since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
3:24
they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
3:25
whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood,
effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness,
because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins
previously committed;
3:26
it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous
and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus.
3:27
Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By
that of works? No, but by the law of faith.
3:28
For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works
prescribed by the law.
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Matthew
7:21-29
7:21 "Not everyone
who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
7:22
On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy
in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds
of power in your name?'
7:23
Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; go away from me,
you evildoers.'
7:24
"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them
will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
7:25
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on
that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on
rock.
7:26
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on
them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
7:27
The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
against that house, and it fell--and great was its fall!"
7:28
Now when Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were
astounded at his teaching,
7:29
for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their
scribes.
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