Jeremiah
8:18-9:1
8:18
My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.
8:19
Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land:
"Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?"
("Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
with their foreign idols?")
8:20
"The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not
saved."
8:21
For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay
has taken hold of me.
8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why
then has the health of my poor people not been restored?
9:1
O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of
tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my
poor people!
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79:1
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have
defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
79:2
They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the
air for food, the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of
the earth.
79:3
They have poured out their blood like water all around
Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
79:4
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by
those around us.
79:5
How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous
wrath burn like fire?
79:6
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on
the kingdoms that do not call on your name.
79:7
For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.
79:8
Do not remember against us the iniquities of our ancestors; let
your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought
very low.
79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
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2:1
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,
2:2
for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead
a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.
2:3
This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
2:4
who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of
the truth.
2:5
For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and
humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,
2:6
who gave himself a ransom for all--this was attested at the
right time.
2:7
For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling
the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith
and truth.
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16:1
Then Jesus said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who
had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was
squandering his property.
16:2
So he summoned him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear
about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you
cannot be my manager any longer.'
16:3
Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my
master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong
enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
16:4
I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as
manager, people may welcome me into their homes.'
16:5
So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the
first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
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He answered, 'A hundred jugs of olive oil.' He said to him,
'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.'
16:7
Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' He replied, 'A
hundred containers of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill
and make it eighty.'
16:8
And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had
acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in
dealing with their own generation than are the children of
light.
16:9
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of
dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you
into the eternal homes.
16:10
"Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in
much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest
also in much.
16:11
If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth,
who will entrust to you the true riches?
16:12
And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another,
who will give you what is your own?
16:13
No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the
one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and wealth."
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