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Genesis
29:15-28
Psalm
105:1-11
Romans
8:26-39
Matthew
13:31-33, 44-52
Genesis
29:15-28
29:15 Then Laban said to
Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore
serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"
29:16
Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and
the name of the younger was Rachel.
29:17
Leah's eyes were lovely, and Rachel was graceful and beautiful.
29:18
Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, "I will serve you seven years
for your younger daughter Rachel."
29:19
Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I
should give her to any other man; stay with me."
29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but
a few days because of the love he had for her.
29:21
Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in
to her, for my time is completed."
29:22
So Laban gathered together all the people of the place, and made a
feast.
29:23
But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to
Jacob; and he went in to her.
29:24
(Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.)
29:25
When morning came, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban,
"What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you
for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
29:26
Laban said, "This is not done in our country--giving the
younger before the firstborn.
29:27
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also
in return for serving me another seven years."
29:28
Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his
daughter Rachel as a wife.
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Psalm
105:1-11
105:1 O give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, make known
his deeds among the peoples.
105:2
Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wonderful works.
105:3
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD
rejoice.
105:4
Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually.
105:5
Remember the wonderful works he has done, his miracles, and the
judgments he uttered,
105:6
O offspring of his servant Abraham, children of Jacob, his chosen
ones.
105:7
He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
105:8
He is mindful of his covenant forever, of the word that he
commanded, for a thousand generations,
105:9
the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to
Isaac,
105:10
which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an
everlasting covenant,
105:11
saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your
portion for an inheritance."
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Romans
8:26-39
8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do
not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes
with sighs too deep for words.
8:27
And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the
Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to
the will of God.
8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love
God, who are called according to his purpose.
8:29
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to
the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn
within a large family.
8:30
And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he
called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also
glorified.
8:31
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who
is against us?
8:32
He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of
us, will he not with him also give us everything else?
8:33
Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who
justifies.
8:34
Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was
raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for
us.
8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?
8:36
As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all day
long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered."
8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
who loved us.
8:38
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
8:39
nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matthew
13:31-33, 44-52
13:31 He put before them
another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard
seed that someone took and sowed in his field;
13:32
it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is
the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of
the air come and make nests in its branches."
13:33
He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like
yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour
until all of it was leavened."
13:44
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field,
which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all
that he has and buys that field.
13:45
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of
fine pearls;
13:46
on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he
had and bought it.
13:47
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown
into the sea and caught fish of every kind;
13:48
when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good
into baskets but threw out the bad.
13:49
So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and
separate the evil from the righteous
13:50
and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
13:51
"Have you understood all this?" They answered,
"Yes."
13:52
And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been
trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a
household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is
old."
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