Hosea
11:1-11
Psalm
107:1-9, 43
Colossians
3:1-11
Luke
12:13-21
Hosea
11:1-11
11:1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of
Egypt I called my son.
11:2
The more I called them, the more they went from me; they
kept sacrificing to the Baals, and offering incense to
idols.
11:3
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up
in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
11:4
I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of
love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their
cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.
11:5
They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria
shall be their king, because they have refused to return
to me.
11:6
The sword rages in their cities, it consumes their
oracle-priests, and devours because of their schemes.
11:7
My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most
High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.
11:8
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over,
O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat
you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my
compassion grows warm and tender.
11:9
I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again
destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy
One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
11:10
They shall go after the LORD, who roars like a lion;
when he roars, his children shall come trembling from
the west.
11:11
They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and
like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return
them to their homes, says the LORD.
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Psalm
107:1-9, 43
107:1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his
steadfast love endures forever.
107:2
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, those he redeemed
from trouble
107:3
and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from
the west, from the north and from the south.
107:4
Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an
inhabited town;
107:5
hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
107:6
Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he
delivered them from their distress;
107:7
he led them by a straight way, until they reached an
inhabited town.
107:8
Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his
wonderful works to humankind.
107:9
For he satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry he fills
with good things.
107:43
Let those who are wise give heed to these things, and
consider the steadfast love of the LORD.
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Colossians
3:1-11
3:1 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the
things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the
right hand of God.
3:2
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things
that are on earth,
3:3
for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ
in God.
3:4
When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also
will be revealed with him in glory.
3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly:
fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed
(which is idolatry).
3:6
On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those
who are disobedient.
3:7
These are the ways you also once followed, when you were
living that life.
3:8
But now you must get rid of all such things--anger,
wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your
mouth.
3:9
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped
off the old self with its practices
3:10
and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is
being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its
creator.
3:11
In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew,
circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian,
slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!
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Luke
12:13-21
12:13 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher,
tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with
me."
12:14
But he said to him, "Friend, who set me to be a
judge or arbitrator over you?"
12:15
And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard
against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not
consist in the abundance of possessions."
12:16
Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich
man produced abundantly.
12:17
And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have
no place to store my crops?'
12:18
Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns
and build larger ones, and there I will store all my
grain and my goods.
12:19
And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods
laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.'
12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your
life is being demanded of you. And the things you have
prepared, whose will they be?'
12:21
So it is with those who store up treasures for
themselves but are not rich toward God."
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