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Acts
1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm
1
1
John 5:9-13
John
17:6-19
Acts
1:15-17, 21-26
1:15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together
the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,
1:16
"Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy
Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide
for those who arrested Jesus --
1:17
for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this
ministry."
1:21
So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that
the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
1:22
beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken
up from us--one of these must become a witness with us to his
resurrection."
1:23
So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known
as Justus, and Matthias.
1:24
Then they prayed and said, "Lord, you know everyone's heart.
Show us which one of these two you have chosen
1:25
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which
Judas turned aside to go to his own place."
1:26
And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he
was added to the eleven apostles.
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Psalm
1
1:1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or
take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers;
1:2
but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they
meditate day and night.
1:3
They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their
fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that
they do, they prosper.
1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives
away.
1:5
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners
in the congregation of the righteous;
1:6
for the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of
the wicked will perish.
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1
John 5:9-13
5:9 If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is
greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to
his Son.
5:10
Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their
hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by
not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his
Son.
5:11
And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life
is in his Son.
5:12
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God
does not have life.
5:13
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of
God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
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John
17:6-19
17:6 "I have made your name known to those whom you gave me
from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they
have kept your word.
17:7
Now they know that everything you have given me is from you;
17:8
for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they
have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and
they have believed that you sent me.
17:9
I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the
world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are
yours.
17:10
All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified
in them.
17:11
And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name
that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
17:12
While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have
given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the
one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
17:13
But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because
they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the
world.
17:15
I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you
to protect them from the evil one.
17:16
They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the
world.
17:17
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
17:18
As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the
world.
17:19
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be
sanctified in truth.
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