Jeremiah 1:4-10

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The Call of Jeremiah

⁴Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

⁵^(A)“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born ^(B)I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet ^(C)to the nations.”

⁶Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, ^(D)I do not know how to speak, ^(E)for I am only a youth.” ⁷But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and ^(F)whatever I command you, you shall speak.
⁸^(G)Do not be afraid of them,
^(H)for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”

⁹^(I)Then the Lord put out his hand and ^(J)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have put ^(K)my words in your mouth.
¹⁰See, I have set you this day ^(L)over nations and over kingdoms,
^(M)to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

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Psalm 71:11-20

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¹¹and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

¹²O God, be not ^(A)far from me;
    O my God, ^(B)make haste to help me!
¹³May my accusers be ^(C)put to shame and consumed;
    ^(D)with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
    who ^(E)seek my hurt.
¹⁴But I will ^(F)hope continually
    and will ^(G)praise you yet more and more.
¹⁵My ^(H)mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
    of your deeds of salvation all the day,
    for ^(I)their number is past my knowledge.
¹⁶With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
    I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

¹⁷O God, from my youth you have taught me,
    and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
¹⁸So even to ^(J)old age and gray hairs,
    O God, ^(K)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
    your power to all those to come.
¹⁹Your ^(L)righteousness, O God,
    reaches the high heavens.
You who have done ^(M)great things,
    O God, ^(N)who is like you?
²⁰You who have ^(O)made me see many troubles and calamities
    will ^(P)revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will bring me up again.

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1 Corinthians 14:12-25

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¹²So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

¹³Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. ¹⁴For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. ¹⁵What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; ^(A)I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will ^(B)sing with my mind also. ¹⁶Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider^[a] say ^(C)“Amen” to ^(D)your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? ¹⁷For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. ¹⁸I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. ¹⁹Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

²⁰Brothers, ^(E)do not be children in your thinking. ^(F)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be ^(G)mature. ²¹^(H)In the Law it is written, ^(I)“By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” ²²Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign^[b] not for unbelievers but for believers. ²³If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, ^(J)will they not say that you are out of your minds? ²⁴But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, ²⁵^(K)the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, ^(L)falling on his face, he will worship God and ^(M)declare that God is really among you.

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 14:16 Or of him that is without gifts
1 Corinthians 14:22 Greek lacks a sign

Luke 4:21-32

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²¹And he began to say to them, “Today ^(A)this Scripture ^(B)has been fulfilled in your hearing.” ²²And all spoke well of him and marveled at ^(C)the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, ^(D)“Is not this ^(E)Joseph's son?” ²³And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ^(F)‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did ^(G)at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’” ²⁴And he said, “Truly, I say to you, ^(H)no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. ²⁵But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when ^(I)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, ²⁶and Elijah was sent to none of them ^(J)but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷And ^(K)there were many lepers^[a] in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, ^(L)but only Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. ²⁹And they rose up and ^(M)drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. ³⁰But ^(N)passing through their midst, he went away.

Jesus Heals a Man with an Unclean Demon

³¹^(O)And he ^(P)went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And ^(Q)he was teaching them ^(R)on the Sabbath, ³²and ^(S)they were astonished at his teaching, ^(T)for his word possessed authority.