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Numbers
21: 4b-9
Psalm
98:1-5
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Corinthians 1:18-24
John
3:13-17
Numbers
21: 4b-9
4:
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go
around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the
way.
5: And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why
have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For
there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless
food."
6: Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
7: And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned,
for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the
LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses
prayed for the people.
8: And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set
it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall
live."
9: So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a
serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
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Psalm
98:1-5
1:
O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things!
His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.
2: The LORD has made known his victory, he has revealed his
vindication in the sight of the nations.
3: He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the
house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory
of our God.
4: Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth
into joyous song and sing praises!
5: Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the
sound of melody!
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1
Corinthians 1:18-24
18:
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but
to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19: For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart."
20: Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the
debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the
world?
21: For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God
through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach
to save those who believe.
22: For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
23: but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and
folly to Gentiles,
24: but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God.
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John
3:13-17
13:
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven,
the Son of man.
14: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must
the Son of man be lifted up,
15: that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."
16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that
whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17: For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.
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