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2
Samuel 7:1-14a
Psalm
89:20-37
Ephesians
2:11-22
Mark
6:30-34, 53-56
2
Samuel 7:1-14a
7:1 Now when the king was settled in his house, and the LORD had
given him rest from all his enemies around him,
7:2
the king said to the prophet Nathan, "See now, I am living in
a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent."
7:3
Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that you have in mind;
for the LORD is with you."
7:4
But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan:
7:5
Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the LORD: Are you the one
to build me a house to live in?
7:6
I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people
of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in
a tent and a tabernacle.
7:7
Wherever I have moved about among all the people of Israel, did I
ever speak a word with any of the tribal leaders of Israel, whom I
commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you
not built me a house of cedar?"
7:8
Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says
the LORD of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the
sheep to be prince over my people Israel;
7:9
and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all
your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great
name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
7:10
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant
them, so that they may live in their own place, and be disturbed
no more; and evildoers shall afflict them no more, as formerly,
7:11
from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I
will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD
declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.
7:12
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your ancestors,
I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth
from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
7:13
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom forever.
7:14a
I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me.
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Psalm
89:20-37
89:20 I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I have
anointed him;
89:21
my hand shall always remain with him; my arm also shall strengthen
him.
89:22
The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.
89:23
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate
him.
89:24
My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him; and in my
name his horn shall be exalted.
89:25
I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
89:26
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my
salvation!'
89:27
I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the
earth.
89:28
Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant
with him will stand firm.
89:29
I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the
heavens endure.
89:30
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my
ordinances,
89:31
if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
89:32
then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their
iniquity with scourges;
89:33
but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to
my faithfulness.
89:34
I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth
from my lips.
89:35
Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to
David.
89:36
His line shall continue forever, and his throne endure before me
like the sun.
89:37
It shall be established forever like the moon, an enduring witness
in the skies." Selah
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Ephesians
2:11-22
2:11 So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth,
called "the uncircumcision" by those who are called
"the circumcision" --a physical circumcision made in the
flesh by human hands--
2:12
remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of
promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been
brought near by the blood of Christ.
2:14
For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one
and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility
between us.
2:15
He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances,
that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the
two, thus making peace,
2:16
and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the
cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.
2:17
So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace
to those who were near;
2:18
for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the
Father.
2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are
citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,
2:20
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with
Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
2:21
In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a
holy temple in the Lord;
2:22
in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling
place for God.
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Mark
6:30-34, 53-56
6:30 The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that
they had done and taught.
6:31
He said to them, "Come away to a deserted place all by
yourselves and rest a while." For many were coming and going,
and they had no leisure even to eat.
6:32
And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
6:33
Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried
there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.
6:34
As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for
them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he
began to teach them many things.
6:53
When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and
moored the boat.
6:54
When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him,
6:55
and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on
mats to wherever they heard he was.
6:56
And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid
the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch
even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
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