Micah 4:1-5

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The Mountain of the Lord

4 It shall come to pass ^(A)in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
²    and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,^[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
³He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall ^(B)beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore;
⁴^(C)but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    ^(D)and no one shall make them afraid,
    ^(E)for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
⁵For ^(F)all the peoples walk
    each in the name of its god,
but ^(G)we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
    forever and ever.

The Lord Shall Rescue Zion

⁶^(H)In that day, declares the Lord,
    ^(I)I will assemble the ^(J)lame
and gather those who have been driven away
    and those whom I have afflicted;
⁷and the lame I will make ^(K)the remnant,
    and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and ^(L)the Lord will reign over them ^(M)in Mount Zion
    from this time forth and forevermore.

⁸And you, O tower of the flock,
    hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you shall it come,
    the former dominion shall come,
    kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹Now why do you cry aloud?
    ^(N)Is there no king in you?
^(O)Has your counselor perished,
    that ^(P)pain seized you like a woman in labor?
¹⁰^(Q)Writhe and groan,^[b] O daughter of Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for ^(R)now you shall go out from the city
    and dwell in the open country;
    you ^(S)shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
    ^(T)there the Lord will redeem you
    from the hand of your enemies.

¹¹Now ^(U)many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
    and ^(V)let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
¹²But ^(W)they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
    that ^(X)he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³Arise and thresh,
    O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
    and I will make your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples;
    and ^(Y)shall devote^[c] ^(Z)their gain to the Lord,
    their wealth to ^(AA)the Lord of the whole earth.

The Ruler to Be Born in Bethlehem

5 ^[d] Now muster your troops, O daughter^[e] of troops;
siege is laid against us;
with a rod ^(AB)they strike the judge of Israel
on the cheek.

Footnotes

Micah 4:2 Or teaching
Micah 4:10 Or push
Micah 4:13 Hebrew devote to destruction
Micah 5:1 Ch 4:14 in Hebrew
Micah 5:1 That is, city

Matthew 9:1-17

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Jesus Heals a Paralytic

9 And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to ^(A)his own city. ²^(B)And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus ^(C)saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ^(D)“Take heart, my son; ^(E)your sins are forgiven.” ³And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, ^(F)“This man is blaspheming.” ⁴But Jesus, ^(G)knowing^[a] their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? ⁵For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? ⁶But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” ⁷And he rose and went home. ⁸When the crowds saw it, ^(H)they were afraid, and ^(I)they glorified God, who had ^(J)given such authority to men.

Jesus Calls Matthew

⁹^(K)As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called ^(L)Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

¹⁰And as Jesus^[b] reclined at table in the house, behold, many ^(M)tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. ¹¹And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ^(N)“Why does your teacher eat with ^(O)tax collectors and sinners?” ¹²But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ¹³Go and learn ^(P)what this means: ^(Q)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For ^(R)I came not to call the righteous, ^(S)but sinners.”

A Question About Fasting

¹⁴Then ^(T)the disciples of John came to him, saying, ^(U)“Why do we and ^(V)the Pharisees fast,^[c] but your disciples do not fast?” ¹⁵And Jesus said to them, ^(W)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? ^(X)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and ^(Y)then they will fast. ¹⁶No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. ¹⁷Neither is new wine put into old ^(Z)wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

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Footnotes

Matthew 9:4 Some manuscripts perceiving
Matthew 9:10 Greek he
Matthew 9:14 Some manuscripts add much, or often

Micah 5:2-15

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²^[a] ^(A)But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    who are too little to be among the clans of ^(B)Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
    one who is to be ^(C)ruler in Israel,
^(D)whose coming forth is ^(E)from of old,
    from ancient days.
³Therefore he shall give them up ^(F)until the time
    when she who is in labor has given birth;
then ^(G)the rest of his brothers shall return
    to the people of Israel.
⁴And he shall stand ^(H)and shepherd his flock ^(I)in the strength of the Lord,
    in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they shall dwell secure, for now ^(J)he shall be great
    to the ends of the earth.
⁵And he shall be ^(K)their peace.

^(L)When the Assyrian comes into our land
    and treads in our palaces,
then we will raise against him seven ^(M)shepherds
    and eight princes of men;
⁶they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
    and the land of ^(N)Nimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
    ^(O)when he comes into our land
    and treads within our border.

A Remnant Shall Be Delivered

⁷Then ^(P)the remnant of Jacob shall be
    in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the Lord,
    like showers on the grass,
which delay not for a man
    nor wait for the children of man.
⁸And ^(Q)the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,
    in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
    like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
^(R)which, when it goes through, treads down
    and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
⁹Your hand shall ^(S)be lifted up over your adversaries,
    and all your enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰And ^(T)in that day, declares the Lord,
    ^(U)I will cut off your horses from among you
    and will destroy your chariots;
¹¹^(V)and I will cut off the cities of your land
    and throw down all your strongholds;
¹²and I will cut off ^(W)sorceries from your hand,
    and ^(X)you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
¹³and ^(Y)I will cut off your carved images
    and ^(Z)your pillars from among you,
^(AA)and you shall bow down no more
    to the work of your hands;
¹⁴and I will root out your ^(AB)Asherah images from among you
    ^(AC)and destroy your cities.
¹⁵And in anger and wrath ^(AD)I will execute vengeance
    on the nations that did not obey.

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Micah 5:2 Ch 5:1 in Hebrew

Galatians 1

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Greeting

1 Paul, an ^(A)apostle—^(B)not from men nor through man, but ^(C)through Jesus Christ and God the Father, ^(D)who raised him from the dead— ²and all ^(E)the brothers^[a] who are with me,

To ^(F)the churches of Galatia:

³^(G)Grace to you and peace ^(H)from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴^(I)who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present ^(J)evil age, according to the will of ^(K)our God and Father, ⁵to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

No Other Gospel

⁶I am astonished that you are ^(L)so quickly deserting ^(M)him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to ^(N)a different gospel— ⁷^(O)not that there is another one, but ^(P)there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. ⁸But even if we or ^(Q)an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, ^(R)let him be accursed. ⁹As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, ^(S)let him be accursed.

¹⁰For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying ^(T)to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a ^(U)servant^[b] of Christ.

Paul Called by God

¹¹For ^(V)I would have you know, brothers, that ^(W)the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.^[c] ¹²^(X)For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it ^(Y)through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³For you have heard of ^(Z)my former life in Judaism, how ^(AA)I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. ¹⁴And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely ^(AB)zealous was I for ^(AC)the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵But when he ^(AD)who had set me apart ^(AE)before I was born,^[d] and who ^(AF)called me by his grace, ¹⁶was pleased to reveal his Son to^[e] me, in order ^(AG)that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;^[f] ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

¹⁸Then ^(AH)after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. ¹⁹But I saw none of the other apostles except James ^(AI)the Lord's brother. ²⁰(In what I am writing to you, ^(AJ)before God, I do not lie!) ²¹^(AK)Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²²And I was still unknown in person to ^(AL)the churches of Judea that are in Christ. ²³They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴And they glorified God because of me.

Footnotes

Galatians 1:2 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verse 11
Galatians 1:10 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Galatians 1:11 Greek not according to man
Galatians 1:15 Greek set me apart from my mother's womb
Galatians 1:16 Greek in
Galatians 1:16 Greek with flesh and blood