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Genesis
22:1-14
Psalm
13
Romans
6:12-23
Matthew
10:40-42
Genesis
22:1-14
22:1 After these things
God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he
said, "Here I am."
22:2
He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt
offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you."
22:3
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took
two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood
for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the
distance that God had shown him.
22:4
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away.
22:5
Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the
donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and
then we will come back to you."
22:6
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son
Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two
of them walked on together.
22:7
Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he said,
"Here I am, my son." He said, "The fire and the
wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
22:8
Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt
offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.
22:9
When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built
an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac,
and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
22:10
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his
son.
22:11
But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said,
"Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
22:12
He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to
him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld
your son, your only son, from me."
22:13
And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its
horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt
offering instead of his son.
22:14
So Abraham called that place "The LORD will provide"; as
it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be
provided."
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Psalm
13
13:1 How long, O LORD?
Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from
me?
13:2
How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart
all day long? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
13:3
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God! Give light to my eyes, or I
will sleep the sleep of death,
13:4
and my enemy will say, "I have prevailed"; my foes will
rejoice because I am shaken.
13:5
But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in
your salvation.
13:6
I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
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Romans
6:12-23
6:12 Therefore, do not
let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey
their passions.
6:13
No longer present your members to sin as instruments of
wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been
brought from death to life, and present your members to God as
instruments of righteousness.
6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under
law but under grace.
6:15
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under
grace? By no means!
6:16
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as
obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either
of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to
righteousness?
6:17
But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin,
have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to
which you were entrusted,
6:18
and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of
righteousness.
6:19
I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.
For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity
and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members
as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
6:20
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to
righteousness.
6:21
So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you
now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.
6:22
But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the
advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matthew
10:40-42
10:40 "Whoever
welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one
who sent me.
10:41
Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a
prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the
name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the
righteous;
10:42
and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little
ones in the name of a disciple -- truly I tell you, none of these
will lose their reward."
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