Acts 1:6-11

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The Ascension

⁶So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, ^(A)will you at this time ^(B)restore the kingdom to Israel?” ⁷He said to them, ^(C)“It is not for you to know ^(D)times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. ⁸But you will receive ^(E)power ^(F)when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and ^(G)you will be ^(H)my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and ^(I)Samaria, and ^(J)to the end of the earth.” ⁹And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, ^(K)he was lifted up, and ^(L)a cloud took him out of their sight. ¹⁰And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, ^(M)two ^(N)men stood by them in ^(O)white robes, ¹¹and said, ^(P)“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, ^(Q)will ^(R)come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

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Proverbs 1:8-19

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The Enticement of Sinners

⁸^(A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
    and forsake not your mother's teaching,
⁹for they are ^(B)a graceful garland for your head
    and ^(C)pendants for your neck.
¹⁰My son, if sinners ^(D)entice you,
    do not consent.
¹¹If they say, “Come with us, ^(E)let us lie in wait for blood;
    ^(F)let us ambush the innocent without reason;
¹²like Sheol let us ^(G)swallow them alive,
    and whole, like ^(H)those who go down to the pit;
¹³we shall find all precious goods,
    we shall fill our houses with plunder;
¹⁴throw in your lot among us;
    we will all have one purse”—
¹⁵my son, ^(I)do not walk in the way with them;
    ^(J)hold back your foot from their paths,
¹⁶for ^(K)their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed blood.
¹⁷^(L)For in vain is a net spread
    in the sight of any bird,
¹⁸but these men ^(M)lie in wait for their own blood;
    they ^(N)set an ambush for their own lives.
¹⁹^(O)Such are the ways of everyone who is ^(P)greedy for unjust gain;
    ^(Q)it takes away the life of its possessors.