Acts
16:9-15
Psalm
67
Revelation
21:10, 22-22:5
John
5:1-9
Acts
16:9-15
16:9 During the night Paul had a vision: there
stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying,
"Come over to Macedonia and help us."
16:10
When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to
cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had
called us to proclaim the good news to them.
16:11
We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to
Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis,
16:12
and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of
the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We
remained in this city for some days.
16:13
On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the
river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer;
and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered
there.
16:14
A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was
listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a
dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to
listen eagerly to what was said by Paul.
16:15
When she and her household were baptized, she urged us,
saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to
the Lord, come and stay at my home." And she
prevailed upon us.
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Psalm
67
67:1 May God
be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to
shine upon us, Selah
67:2
that your way may be known upon earth, your saving power
among all nations.
67:3
Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples
praise you.
67:4
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge
the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon
earth. Selah
67:5
Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples
praise you.
67:6
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has
blessed us.
67:7
May God continue to bless us; let all the ends of the
earth revere him.
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Revelation
21:10, 22-22:5
21:10 And in
the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain
and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of
heaven from God.
21:22
I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord
God the Almighty and the Lamb.
21:23
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the
Lamb.
21:24
The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the
earth will bring their glory into it.
21:25
Its gates will never be shut by day--and there will be
no night there.
21:26
People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the
nations.
21:27
But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who
practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who
are written in the Lamb's book of life.
22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life,
bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of
the Lamb
22:2
through the middle of the street of the city. On either
side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve
kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the
leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
22:3
Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the
throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his
servants will worship him;
22:4
they will see his face, and his name will be on their
foreheads.
22:5
And there will be no more night; they need no light of
lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and
they will reign forever and ever.
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John
5:1-9
5:1 After this there was a festival of the Jews,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool,
called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
5:3
In these lay many invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed.
5:5
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight
years.
5:6
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been
there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to
be made well?"
5:7
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to
put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and
while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead
of me."
5:8
Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and
walk."
5:9
At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat
and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.
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