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Jeremiah
45:1-5
Psalm
7:1-10
Acts
11:27-12:3
Matthew
20:20-28
Jeremiah
45:1-5
1 The word that the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah,
when he wrote these words in a scroll at the dictation of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of
Judah: 2 Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:
3 You said, "Woe is me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain;
I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest." 4 Thus you
shall say to him, "Thus says the Lord: I am going to break
down what I have built, and pluck up what I have planted—that
is, the whole land. 5 And you, do you seek great things for
yourself? Do not seek them; for I am going to bring disaster upon
all flesh, says the Lord; but I will give you your life as a prize
of war in every place to which you may go."
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Psalm
7:1-10
1 O Lord my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my
pursuers, and deliver me, 2 or like a lion they will tear me
apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue. 3 O Lord my
God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, 4 if I
have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause, 5
then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the
ground, and lay my soul in the dust. (Selah) 6 Rise up, O Lord, in
your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment. 7 Let the assembly
of the peoples be gathered around you, and over it take your seat
on high. 8 The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord,
according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that
is in me. 9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but
establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O
righteous God. 10 God is my shield, who saves the upright in
heart.
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Acts
11:27-12:3
27 At that time prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted by the Spirit that
there would be a severe famine over all the world; and this took
place during the reign of Claudius. 29 The disciples determined
that according to their ability, each would send relief to the
believers living in Judea; 30 this they did, sending it to the
elders by Barnabas and Saul. 1 About that time King Herod laid
violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. 2 He had
James, the brother of John, killed with the sword. 3 After he saw
that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This
was during the festival of Unleavened Bread.)
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Matthew
20:20-28
20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her
sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favor of him. 21 And he
said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him,
"Declare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your
right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom." 22 But
Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you
able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to
him, "We are able." 23 He said to them, "You will
indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left,
this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has
been prepared by my Father." 24 When the ten heard it, they
were angry with the two brothers. 25 But Jesus called them to him
and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it
over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. 26 It will
not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must
be your servant, 27 and whoever wishes to be first among you must
be your slave; 28 just as the Son of Man came not to be served but
to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
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