Isaiah 59:12-20

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¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
    and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
    and we know our iniquities:
¹³transgressing, and denying the Lord,
    and turning back from following our God,
^(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Judgment and Redemption

¹⁴^(B)Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him^[a]
    that there was no justice.
¹⁶^(C)He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no one to intercede;
then his own arm brought him salvation,
    and his righteousness upheld him.
¹⁷^(D)He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
    and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
    and wrapped himself in ^(E)zeal as a cloak.
¹⁸^(F)According to their deeds, so will he repay,
    wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
    ^(G)to the coastlands he will render repayment.
¹⁹^(H)So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west,
    and his glory from the rising of the sun;
^(I)for he will come like a rushing stream,^[b]
    which the wind of the Lord drives.

²⁰^(J)“And ^(K)a Redeemer will come to Zion,
to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 59:15 Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes
Isaiah 59:19 Hebrew a narrow river

Amos 8:4-14

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⁴Hear this, ^(A)you who trample on the needy
    and bring the poor of the land to an end,
⁵saying, “When will ^(B)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And ^(C)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make ^(D)the ephah small and the shekel^[a] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,
⁶that we may buy the poor for ^(E)silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

⁷The Lord has sworn by ^(F)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(G)I will never forget any of their deeds.
⁸^(H)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(I)and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about ^(J)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

⁹“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(K)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰^(L)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(M)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(N)and baldness on every head;
^(O)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(P)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(Q)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹²^(R)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    ^(S)but they shall not find it.

¹³^(T)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall ^(U)faint for thirst.
¹⁴Those who swear by ^(V)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As ^(W)the Way of ^(X)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

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Footnotes

Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Ephesians 5:15-6:9

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¹⁵^(A)Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶^(B)making the best use of the time, because ^(C)the days are evil. ¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what ^(D)the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸And ^(E)do not get drunk with wine, for that is ^(F)debauchery, but ^(G)be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹addressing one another in ^(H)psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, ²⁰^(I)giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father ^(J)in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹^(K)submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives and Husbands

²²^(L)Wives, ^(M)submit to your own husbands, ^(N)as to the Lord. ²³For ^(O)the husband is the head of the wife even as ^(P)Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is ^(Q)himself its Savior. ²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit ^(R)in everything to their husbands.

²⁵^(S)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and ^(T)gave himself up for her, ²⁶that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by ^(U)the washing of water ^(V)with the word, ²⁷so ^(W)that he might present the church to himself in splendor, ^(X)without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.^[a] ²⁸In the same way ^(Y)husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰because ^(Z)we are members of his body. ³¹^(AA)“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(AB)the two shall become one flesh.” ³²This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. ³³However, ^(AC)let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she ^(AD)respects her husband.

Children and Parents

6 ^(AE)Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ²^(AF)“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), ³“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” ⁴Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, ^(AG)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Bondservants and Masters

⁵^(AH)Bondservants,^[b] obey your earthly masters^[c] with fear and trembling, ^(AI)with a sincere heart, ^(AJ)as you would Christ, ⁶not by the way of eye-service, as ^(AK)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, ⁷rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, ⁸^(AL)knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, ^(AM)whether he is a bondservant or is free. ⁹Masters, do the same to them, ^(AN)and stop your threatening, knowing that ^(AO)he who is both their Master^[d] and yours is in heaven, and that ^(AP)there is no partiality with him.

Footnotes

Ephesians 5:27 Or holy and blameless
Ephesians 6:5 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; also verse 6; likewise for bondservant in verse 8
Ephesians 6:5 Or your masters according to the flesh
Ephesians 6:9 Greek Lord

John 7:14-36

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¹⁴About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(A)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵The Jews therefore ^(B)marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,^[a] when he has never studied?” ¹⁶So Jesus answered them, ^(C)“My teaching is not mine, but his ^(D)who sent me. ¹⁷^(E)If anyone's will is to do God's^[b] will, ^(F)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(G)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸The one who speaks on his own authority ^(H)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. ¹⁹^(I)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(J)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰The crowd answered, ^(K)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹Jesus answered them, “I did ^(L)one work, and you all marvel at it. ²²^(M)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(N)from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(O)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ²⁴^(P)Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(Q)they seek to kill? ²⁶And here he is, ^(R)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(S)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷But ^(T)we know ^(U)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(V)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸So Jesus proclaimed, ^(W)as he taught in the temple, ^(X)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(Y)I have not come of my own accord. ^(Z)He who sent me is true, ^(AA)and him you do not know. ²⁹^(AB)I know him, for I come ^(AC)from him, and ^(AD)he sent me.” ³⁰^(AE)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(AF)no one laid a hand on him, ^(AG)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹Yet ^(AH)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(AI)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(AJ)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(AK)officers to arrest him. ³³Jesus then said, ^(AL)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(AM)I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴^(AN)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(AO)Does he intend to go to ^(AP)the Dispersion among ^(AQ)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does he mean by saying, ^(AR)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”