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Numbers
21:4b-9
Psalm
98:1-6
I
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; but the people became impatient on the
way. 5 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 detest this miserable
food." 6 Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the
people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. 7
The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by
speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to
take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the
people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, "Make a poisonous
serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall
look at it and live." 9 So Moses made a serpent of bronze,
and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that
person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
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Psalm
98:1-6
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. 6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord.
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I
Corinthians 1:18-24
18 For the message about the cross is foolishness 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 discernment of the discerning I will thwart." 20
Where is the one who is wise? 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, God decided, through the foolishness of our
proclamation, to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs
and Greeks desire wisdom, 23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a
stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to
those who are the 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 except the one who descended
from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And just 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, so that everyone
who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17
"Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn
the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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