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Judges
4:1-7
Psalm
123
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Thessalonians 5:1-11
Matthew
25:14-30
Judges
4:1-7
4:1 The Israelites
again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, after Ehud died.
4:2
So the LORD sold them into the hand of King Jabin of Canaan, who
reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived
in Harosheth-ha-goiim.
4:3
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help; for he had
nine hundred chariots of iron, and had oppressed the Israelites
cruelly twenty years.
4:4
At that time Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was judging
Israel.
4:5
She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel
in the hill country of Ephraim; and the Israelites came up to her
for judgment.
4:6
She sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali,
and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you,
'Go, take position at Mount Tabor, bringing ten thousand from the
tribe of Naphtali and the tribe of Zebulun.
4:7
I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you
by the Wadi Kishon with his chariots and his troops; and I will
give him into your hand.'"
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Psalm
123
123:1 To you I lift up
my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
123:2
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the
eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to
the LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.
123:3
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had
more than enough of contempt.
123:4
Our soul has had more than its fill of the scorn of those who are
at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
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Thessalonians 5:1-11
5:1 Now concerning the
times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to
have anything written to you.
5:2
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will
come like a thief in the night.
5:3
When they say, "There is peace and security," then
sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a
pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!
5:4
But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise
you like a thief;
5:5
for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are
not of the night or of darkness.
5:6
So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake
and be sober;
5:7
for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get
drunk at night.
5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the
breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of
salvation.
5:9
For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:10
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may
live with him.
5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed
you are doing.
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Matthew
25:14-30
25:14 "For it is
as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted
his property to them;
25:15
to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to
each according to his ability. Then he went away.
25:16
The one who had received the five talents went off at once and
traded with them, and made five more talents.
25:17
In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more
talents.
25:18
But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a
hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
25:19
After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled
accounts with them.
25:20
Then the one who had received the five talents came forward,
bringing five more talents, saying, 'Master, you handed over to me
five talents; see, I have made five more talents.'
25:21
His master said to him, 'Well done, good and trustworthy slave;
you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in
charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'
25:22
And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying,
'Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two
more talents.'
25:23
His master said to him, 'Well done, good and trustworthy slave;
you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in
charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'
25:24
Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward,
saying, 'Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where
you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed;
25:25
so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground.
Here you have what is yours.'
25:26
But his master replied, 'You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did
you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not
scatter?
25:27
Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on
my return I would have received what was my own with interest.
25:28
So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten
talents.
25:29
For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have
an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have
will be taken away.
25:30
As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
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