Isaiah 11-12

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The Righteous Reign of the Branch

11 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of ^(A)Jesse,
    and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
²And ^(B)the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
    the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the Spirit of counsel and might,
    the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
^(C)He shall not judge by ^(D)what his eyes see,
    or decide disputes by ^(E)what his ears hear,
⁴but ^(F)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall ^(G)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and ^(H)with the breath of his lips ^(I)he shall kill the wicked.
⁵Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
    and ^(J)faithfulness the belt of his loins.

⁶^(K)The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child shall lead them.
⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
⁹^(L)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all ^(M)my holy mountain;
^(N)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰In that day ^(O)the root of ^(P)Jesse, who shall stand as ^(Q)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

¹¹^(R)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, ^(S)from Assyria, ^(T)from Egypt, from ^(U)Pathros, from ^(V)Cush,^[a] from ^(W)Elam, from ^(X)Shinar, from ^(Y)Hamath, and from ^(Z)the coastlands of the sea.

¹²He will raise ^(AA)a signal for the nations
    and will assemble ^(AB)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
    from the four corners of the earth.
¹³^(AC)The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
    and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
    and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴^(AD)But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
    and together they shall plunder ^(AE)the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand ^(AF)against ^(AG)Edom and ^(AH)Moab,
    and ^(AI)the Ammonites shall obey them.
¹⁵And the Lord will utterly destroy^[b]
    ^(AJ)the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over ^(AK)the River^[c]
    with his scorching breath,^[d]
and strike it into seven channels,
    and he will lead people across in sandals.
¹⁶And there will be ^(AL)a highway from Assyria
    for the remnant that remains of his people,
^(AM)as there was for Israel
    when they came up from the land of Egypt.

The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You^[e] will say ^(AN)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
for though you were angry with me,
^(AO)your anger turned away,
that you might comfort me.

²“Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for ^(AP)the Lord God^[f] is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”

³^(AQ)With joy you^[g] will draw water from the wells of salvation. ⁴^(AR)And you will say in that day:

^(AS)“Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
^(AT)make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim ^(AU)that his name is exalted.

⁵^(AV)“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
let this be made known^[h] in all the earth.
⁶Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
for great ^(AW)in your^[i] midst is ^(AX)the Holy One of Israel.”

Footnotes

Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia
Isaiah 11:15 Hebrew devote to destruction
Isaiah 11:15 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 11:15 Or wind
Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1
Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord
Isaiah 12:3 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 3, 4
Isaiah 12:5 Or this is made known
Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion

1 Corinthians 3

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Divisions in the Church

3 But I, brothers,^[a] could not address you as ^(A)spiritual people, but as ^(B)people of the flesh, as ^(C)infants in Christ. ²^(D)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for ^(E)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, ³for you are still of the flesh. For while there is ^(F)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? ⁴For ^(G)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” ^(H)are you not being merely human?

⁵What then is Apollos? What is Paul? ^(I)Servants through whom you believed, ^(J)as the Lord assigned to each. ⁶^(K)I planted, ^(L)Apollos watered, ^(M)but God gave the growth. ⁷So ^(N)neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸He who plants and he who waters are one, and each ^(O)will receive his wages according to his labor. ⁹For we are ^(P)God's fellow workers. You are God's field, ^(Q)God's building.

¹⁰^(R)According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled^[b] master builder I laid a ^(S)foundation, and ^(T)someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. ¹¹For no one can lay a ^(U)foundation other ^(V)than that which is laid, ^(W)which is Jesus Christ. ¹²Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ¹³^(X)each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed ^(Y)by fire, and ^(Z)the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, ^(AA)he will receive a reward. ¹⁵If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, ^(AB)but only as through fire.

¹⁶^(AC)Do you not know that you^[c] are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? ¹⁷If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For ^(AD)God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

¹⁸^(AE)Let no one deceive himself. ^(AF)If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹For ^(AG)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, ^(AH)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,” ²⁰and again, ^(AI)“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹So ^(AJ)let no one boast in men. For ^(AK)all things are yours, ²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, ²³and ^(AL)you are Christ's, and ^(AM)Christ is God's.

Footnotes

1 Corinthians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters
1 Corinthians 3:10 Or wise
1 Corinthians 3:16 The Greek for you is plural in verses 16 and 17

Psalm 103:10-16

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¹⁰He does not deal with us ^(A)according to our sins,
    nor repay us according to our iniquities.
¹¹For ^(B)as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his ^(C)steadfast love toward ^(D)those who fear him;
¹²as far as the east is from the west,
    so far does he ^(E)remove our transgressions from us.
¹³As ^(F)a father shows compassion to his children,
    so the Lord shows compassion ^(G)to those who fear him.
¹⁴For he knows our frame;^[a]
    he ^(H)remembers that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are like ^(I)grass;
he flourishes like ^(J)a flower of the field;
¹⁶for ^(K)the wind passes over it, and ^(L)it is gone,
and ^(M)its place knows it no more.

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Footnotes

Psalm 103:14 Or knows how we are formed

Proverbs 21:24-25

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²⁴^(A)“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man
who acts with arrogant pride.
²⁵The desire of ^(B)the sluggard kills him,
for his hands refuse to labor.